Modern-day Chinese people sometimes refer to themselves as the " Descendants of Yan and Yellow Emperor ", although non-Han minority groups in China may have their own myths or not count as descendants of the emperor.

Modern-day authorities disagree as to how much of Gerard's Herball was original.

Modern-day versions of kuy teav featuring beef, chicken or seafood ( rather than the original pork broth ) have also evolved, but the plethora of garnishes that distinguish kuy teav remains the same.

Modern-day military musicians often perform a variety of other styles of music in different ensembles, from chamber music to rock and roll.

Modern-day masks also offer this ability, and goaltenders are well-identified with their helmet design, often transferring the motif into their new team's colors when traded or signed to a new team ( for example, Patrick Lalime's Marvin the Martian theme, Felix Potvin's cat theme, Curtis Joseph's Cujo theme, or Ed Belfour's eagle theme ).

Modern-day power projection often makes use of high-tech communications and information technology to overcome these difficulties, a process sometimes described as the " Revolution in Military Affairs.

Modern-day handsets usually contain the phone's microphone as well, but in early telephones the microphone was mounted directly on the telephone itself, which often was attached to a wall at a convenient height for talking.

Modern-day fundamentalists tend to prefer the definition of premarital sex, or will even choose to broaden the term to also include activities such as masturbation and pornography, while progressive and mainstream Christians tend to limit the interpretation of the word to illegal sexual activities such as incest, bestiality and pedophilia.

Modern-day usage has expanded to several uses for the term.

Modern-day makers of oboes da caccia include Sand Dalton of Lopez Island, Washington, United States ; Richard Earle in the UK ; Marcel Ponseele in France ; Henri Gohin in France ; and Joel Robinson in New York City.

Modern-day historians reject both of these portrayals as simplistic and present instead a history of Irish kingship that is more complex and parallels the development of national kingship elsewhere in Europe ( for instance the Holy Roman Empire, to some extent ).

Modern-day surrealist activity is sometimes called " post surrealism " by advocates of the idea that surrealism is " dead ".

Modern-day commentators and Neopagans sometimes identify Boann with the goddess Brigid, or believe Boann to be Brigid's mother ; however there are no Celtic sources that describe her as such.

Modern-day slow match ( used with replica matchlock firearms ) is sometimes made of cotton cord, instead of hemp, due to legalities associated with growing hemp plants.

Modern-day studies have revealed traces of Taíno DNA in individuals throughout Cuba, although the population was largely destroyed as a culture and civilization after 1550.

Modern-day Exxon, Mobil, Atlantic Richfield, Chevron, Sohio, Amoco and Continental Oil all trace their ancestry to various parts of Standard Oil.

Modern-day Interstate 80 closely follows the path of the railroad, with one exception.

Modern-day enthusiasts of King Richard III thereby accuse Morton of inventing the account whereby Richard murdered Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York and committed other crimes attributed to him.

Modern-day Trento is a cosmopolitan city, with highly-developed and organized modern social services.

Modern-day combines can be adjusted to work with any grain crop, and many unusual seed crops.

Modern-day genetic studies of the Y-chromosome suggest a close ethnic kinship between the Hutu and other neighboring Bantu peoples, particularly the Tutsi.

Modern-day Pottstown is established on land originally deeded to William Penn.

Modern-day Hidalgo was first settled by Spanish colonists led by José de Escandón in about 1749.

Modern-day New Jersey police officers inherit their authority from the constable.

Modern-day Britwell, which has the well-defined geographic boundaries of Farnham Lane ( in the north ), Lower Britwell Road and Haymill Road ( to the west ), Whittaker Road and Northborough Road ( south ) and Long Readings Lane ( east ), was created as a large overspill housing estate for bombed-out Londoners at the end of the Second World War.

Modern-day historians believe that he had a direct hand in its organization because of his role in the Propaganda Movement and his eminent position in Philippine Masonry ; most of the Katipunan's founders were freemasons.

Modern-day Vehicle Identification Number systems are based on two related standards, originally issued by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) in 1979 and 1980 ; ISO 3779 and ISO 3780, respectively.

Honored in several Halls of Fame, Bascom is now known as the " Father of the Modern-day Bareback Rigging.

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.

* Garrett TA ( 2007 ), Economic Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Implications for a Modern-day Pandemic, Retrieved from http :// www. stlouisfed. org / community_development / assets / pdf / pandemic_flu_report. pdf on 11 / 4 / 2010

Modern-day statute law is made by the bicameral National Parliament — more commonly know by its Irish name, the Oireachtas.

Modern-day possession of guns operates as follows: everything that isn't prohibited under section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968 must be held on a section 1 firearms certificate, unless it is a section 2 shotgun and can thus go on a Shot Gun Certificate.

Modern-day archaeologists have found several ceremonial stone constructions here, which appear to represent sacrificial altar stones, slate hollows or cavities.

Modern-day Construction involves creating awesome structures that can show the beauty and creativity of the human intellect.

While down there, along with the dead, he is shown the place where the wrongly convicted reside, the fields of sorrow where those who committed suicide and now regret it reside, including Aeneas ' former lover, the warriors and shades, Tartarus ( where the titans and powerful non-mortal enemies of the Olympians reside ) where he can hear the groans of the imprisoned, the palace of Pluto, and the fields of Elysium where the descendants of the divine and bravest heroes reside.

The Act of Settlement provided that the throne would pass to the Electress Sophia of Hanover – a granddaughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England, niece of Charles I of Scotland and England – and her Protestant descendants who had not married a Roman Catholic ; those who were Roman Catholic, and those who married a Roman Catholic, were barred from ascending the throne " for ever ".

Boer (,, or ; ) is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal ( which are together known as the Boer Republics ), and to a lesser extent Natal.

A portion of those who are the descendants of the Boerevolk have reasserted this designation.

Almost twenty annals describing Cerdic's campaigns, and those of his descendants appear interspersed through the next hundred years of entries in the Chronicle.

The earliest genealogical records of the descendants of Cináed mac Ailpín may date from the end of the tenth century, but their value lies more in their context, and the information they provide about the interests of those for whom they were compiled, than in the unreliable claims they contain.

The earliest genealogical records of the descendants of Kenneth MacAlpin may date from the end of the 10th century, but their value lies more in their context, and the information they provide about the interests of those for whom they were compiled, than in the unreliable claims they contain.

Following this, firearms held in storage by the Gardai were reclaimed by those owners still alive or their descendants.

Today, descendants of those Poles who stayed are living in Casale and Fond Des Blancs.

Shaver claimed that a superior pre-historic race had built a honeycomb of caves in the Earth, and that their degenerate descendants, known as " Dero ", live there still, using the fantastic machines abandoned by the ancient races to torment those of us living on the surface.

The British government's strategy was to estrange the clan chiefs from their kinsmen and turn their descendants into English-speaking landlords whose main concern was the revenues their estates brought rather than the welfare of those who lived on them.

The scriptural basis for this new positive attitude towards Jews among Evangelicals is Genesis 12: 3, in which God promises that He will bless those who bless Abraham and his descendants, and curse those who curse them ( see also " Abrahamic Covenant ").

In accordance with law, Latvian citizens are those who had Latvian citizenship prior to June 17, 1940, and their descendants.

This works by first matching unambiguous meanings, then limiting the search space to only the respective ancestors and descendants of those matched meanings.

If instead only two of those mutants are viable, the rest being lethal mutations, then that sequence is poorly connected and most of its descendants will not reproduce.

These organelles are believed to be descendants of bacteria ( see Endosymbiotic theory ) and as such their ribosomes are similar to those of bacteria.

In those two languages, the name flauta is ambiguous, as it can mean any kind of transverse flutes, a recorder, or different other types of wind blown instruments, like the pan flute and some instruments used by the descendants of native peoples of the Central and South Americas ( with varied degrees of influence of European instruments ).

Most of the descendants of those Muslims and Jews who submitted to compulsory conversion to Christianity rather than exile during the early periods of the Inquisition, the Moriscos and Conversos respectively, were later expelled from Spain, when the Inquisition was at its height, and Portugal.

The Sophia Naturalization Act 1705 granted the right of British nationality to Sophia's non-Roman Catholic descendants ; those who had obtained the right to British citizenship via this Act at any time before its repeal by the British Nationality Act 1948 retain this lawful right today.

The Mul. Apin lists, dated to sometime before the Neo-Babylonian Empire ( 626-539 BC ), are direct textual descendants of the ' Three Stars Each ' lists and their constellation patterns show similarities to those of later Greek civilization.

Two of the currently popular Smalltalk implementation variants are descendants of those original Smalltalk-80 images.

Out of wedlock, William I had numerous children, their descendants being among those who would lay claim to the Scottish crown.

After death, he was represented at his own funeral, and those of his later descendants, by a hired actor who wore his death mask ( imago ) and was clad in the all-purple, gold-embroidered triumphal toga picta (" painted " toga ).