Some Old Breton vocabulary remains in the present day as philosophical and scientific terms in Modern Breton.

Modern day control engineering ( also called control systems engineering ) is a relatively new field of study that gained a significant attention during 20th century with the advancement in technology.

Modern day social stratification in Caribbean nations such as Jamaica and Haiti developed during the colonial era.

* Modern day Orthodox Jewish views on evolution

Modern day Afghanistan was conquered by the Maurya Empire, which was led by Chandragupta Maurya from Magadha ( modern day Bihar in India ).

The History of Modern Greece covers the history of Greece from the recognition of its autonomy from the Ottoman Empire by the Great Powers ( the United Kingdom, France, and Russia ) in 1828, after the Greek War of Independence, to the present day.

Following a change in vowel pronunciation that marks the transition of English from the medieval to the Renaissance period, the language of the Chancery and Caxton became Early Modern English ( the language of Shakespeare's day ) and with relatively moderate changes eventually developed into the English language of today.

Modern day el Amarna.

Modern military doctrine, organization, and norms are all based on Napoleonic premises, even to this day — though whether these premises are necessarily also " Clausewitzian " is debatable.

Modern day Pakistan was conquered by Chandragupta Maurya, who overthrew the powerful Nanda Dynasty of Magadha and established Maurya empire: He conquered the trans-Indus region to the west, which was under Macedonian rule-annexing Balochistan, south eastern parts of Iran and much of what is now Afghanistan, including the modern Herat and Kandahar provinces-and then defeated the invasion led by Seleucus I, a Greek general from Alexander's army.

Modern day Purple Heart presentations are recorded in both hardcopy and electronic service records.

Modern day works continue to support the claims of the ancients that rhetoric is an art capable of influencing civic life.

He has been dubbed the ' Father of Modern Philosophy ', and much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day.

Modern day clergy and practitioners within some religious movements have no problem classifying the religion's sacred stories as " myths ".

The Modern Irish word Samhain is derived from the Old Irish samain, samuin, or samfuin, all referring to 1 November ( latha na samna: ' samhain day '), and the festival and royal assembly held on that date in medieval Ireland ( oenaig na samna: ' samhain assembly ').

Vijaya and his followers were said to have arrived in Sri Lanka after being exiled from the city of Sinhapura in Kalinga ( Modern day Orissa ), East India.

Modern day semi-trailer trucks often operate as a part of a domestic or international transport infrastructure to support containerized cargo shipment.

The famous waka poets of the day ( including Ki no Tsurayuki ) gathered the waka of ancient poets and their contemporaries and named the anthology " Kokin Wakashū ", meaning Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Poems.

Modern six-days last less than 12 hours a day and the madison is now only a featured part, so staying on the track throughout is more feasible.

Film maker SiyaBonga Makhathini has directed the film " We Still are Warriors " which captures the essence of the Modern day Zulu Stick fighter, descendant of the kings of old.

Modern day sleighs combine light metals, steel runners, and an aerodynamic composite body.

* Alan Fenton, The Return of Arthur Series set in Modern day

Modern day combine harvesters ( or simply combines ) operate on the same principles and use the same components as the original threshing machines built in the 19th century.

Image: Modern Camera Obscura. JPG | Image of a modern day camera obscura

His first story sale was the climax of Modern Inventions, for a sequence where a robot barber chair gives Donald Duck a haircut on his butt.

The story was slightly altered and the title changed to King Kong vs. Prometheus, returning the name to the original Frankenstein concept ( The Modern Prometheus was the alternate name of Frankenstein in the original novel ).

This was ostensibly because a chronological survey of the story of modern art along the lines of the Museum of Modern Art in New York would expose the large gaps in the collections, the result of the Tate's conservative acquisitions policy for the first half of the 20th century.

* Modern works based on the story of Thomas Becket include T. S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral, Jean Anouilh's play Becket, which was made into a movie with the same title, and Paul Webb's play Four Nights in Knaresborough.

Modern scholars are skeptical of the prophecy story.

Modern novels which retell Cú Chulainn's story include Rosemary Sutcliff's 1963 children's novel The Hound of Ulster and Morgan Llywelyn's 1989 historical novel Red Branch, The legends of Cú Chulainn also appear occasionally in Frank McCourt's bestselling 1996 memoir Angela's Ashes.

Modern scholars find nothing about the Prester or his country in the early material that would make Ethiopia a more suitable identification than any place else, and furthermore, specialists in Ethiopian history have effectively demonstrated that the story was not widely known there until well after European contact.

They decided to have a contest to see who could write the scariest story, leading Shelley to write Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus and Lord Byron to write " A Fragment ", which Polidori later stole and rewrote as The Vampyre — a precursor to Dracula.

Shughart's story is depicted in Black Hawk Down, a 2001 film by Ridley Scott, based on the book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden.

*" Beyond Between " ( 2003 short story in Legends II: Short Novels By the Masters of Modern Fantasy, Robert Silverberg, ed.

Modern scholars have debated the various details of Gildas ' story, and attempted to pry open his language after more information.

Modern variations of the story include Tanith Lee's short story " Red as Blood " ( published in her story collection of the same title ) and Neil Gaiman's short story " Snow, Glass, Apples ".

Korda cast her again in A Modern Dubarry ( 1927 ), which adapted the life story of Madame Du Barry based on an original screenplay by Lajos Biro.

# The American " Modern " story ( ca.

Modern thinkers typically view the stories of Adam and Eve, which includes the story of Cain and Able, to be about the development of civilization, during the age of agriculture.

The term was coined by William Gibson in his story " The Gernsback Continuum ": " Cohen introduced us and explained that Dialta noted pop-art historian was the prime mover behind the latest Barris-Watford project, an illustrated history of what she called " American Streamlined Modern.

The June 1937 issue of Modern Mechanix relates the story from then-current accounts as follows: " Winchester and the baby girl died suddenly and Mrs Winchester, stunned by the tragedy, fell into a coma so serious that physicians despaired of her life.

Modern editors generally agree that Shakespeare is responsible for almost exactly half the play — 827 lines — the main portion after scene 9 that follows the story of Pericles and Marina.

Modern historians have emphasized that the story of the 1775 signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration can be dated no earlier than 1819.

The story of Times Beach was featured on History Channel's Modern Marvels, in the episode " Engineering Disasters 20 ".

Modern scholars, though, question the reliability of this story as Nero did not marry Poppaea until 62.

Modern researchers, however, believe that Charrière got much of his story material from other inmates, and, thus, see the work as more fictional than autobiography.