German Alpen is the accusative in origin, but was made the nominative in Modern German, whence also Alm.

Modern arrows are made to a specified ' spine ', or stiffness rating, to maintain matched flexing and hence accuracy of aim.

Modern genetics has made clear that the lack of use does not, in itself, necessitate a feature's disappearance.

Modern variants of the Batavian founding myth are made more credible by pointing out that the Batavians were only part of the ancestry of the Dutch people, together with the Frisians, Franks and Saxons, and by tracing patterns of DNA.

Modern boomerangs used for sport are often made from carbon fibre-reinforced plastics, thin aircraft plywood, or other high-tech materials.

Modern vacuum tubes use thermionic emission, in which the cathode is made of a thin wire filament which is heated by a separate electric current passing through it.

Modern Nationalism, as developed especially since the French Revolution, has made the distinction between " language " and " dialect " an issue of great political importance.

Modern commercial domino sets are usually made of synthetic materials, such as ABS or polystyrene plastics, or Bakelite and other phenolic resins ; many sets approximate the look and feel of ivory while others use colored or even translucent plastics to achieve a more contemporary look.

This " Modern Damascus " is made from several types of steel and iron slices welded together to form a billet.

" Modern Love " and " China Girl " made number two in the UK, accompanied by a pair of acclaimed promotional videos that, as described by biographer David Buckley, " were totally absorbing and activated key archetypes in the pop world.

Modern horseshoes are most commonly made of steel and nailed into the hoof wall.

Modern drug therapy for ED made a significant advance in 1983, when British physiologist Giles Brindley, Ph. D. dropped his trousers and demonstrated to a shocked Urodynamics Society audience his papaverine-induced erection.

Modern dosimeters are made of a range of materials, such as alanine pellets, perspex ( PMMA ) blocks, and radiochromic films, as well as special solutions and other materials.

Modern, authentic nihontō are made by a few hundred swordsmiths.

Modern nihonto manufactured according to traditional methods are usually known as, meaning " newly made swords ".

Modern kaleidoscopes are made of brass tubes, stained glass, wood, steel, gourds or almost any material an artist can use.

Modern music videos were primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings.

Modern particle physics research is focused on subatomic particles, including atomic constituents such as electrons, protons, and neutrons ( protons and neutrons are composite particles called baryons, made of quarks ), produced by radioactive and scattering processes, such as photons, neutrinos, and muons, as well as a wide range of exotic particles.

Modern hashing, chunk verification and different encryption methods have made most networks resistant to almost any type of attack, even when major parts of the respective network have been replaced by faked or nonfunctional hosts.

Modern scholars such as Tom Harpur and Joseph Campbell favor the derivation from " bind, connect ", probably from a prefixed, i. e. re ( again ) + ligare or " to reconnect ," which was made prominent by St. Augustine, following the interpretation of Lactantius.

Modern skyscrapers ' walls are not load-bearing, and most skyscrapers are characterized by large surface areas of windows made possible by the concept of steel frame and curtain walls.

While Richman never returned to the Velvets-inspired sound of the original Modern Lovers, the demo recordings made with that group eventually surfaced in various formats.

Modern graffiti has also found its way to the graves, usually in the form of names made with coloured pens ( sometimes they are carved ).

Modern imitation or " paper vellum " is made from plasticized cotton.

Modern cultures in this region, many of whom claim some of these ancient people as ancestors, contain a striking range of diversity in lifestyles, social organization, language and religious beliefs.

Modern Armenia term means Republic of Armenia which occupies part of historical Armenia, whose ancient centers were in the valley of the Araks River and the region around Lake Van in Turkey.

* The Modern Burgundian language, an Oïl language also known as Bourguignon spoken in the region of Burgundy.

Modern archaeologists and historians of the region refer to their field of study as Syro-Palestinian archaeology.

During the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Flanders was characterised by the presence of large urban centres (...) at the beginning of the nineteenth century this region ( Flanders ), with an urbanisation degree of more than 30 per cent, remained one of the most urbanised in the world.

Modern region of Macedonia is Macedonia ( terminology )# Subregions | divided by the national boundaries of Greece ( Macedonia ( Greece ) | Greek Macedonia ), the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria ( Blagoevgrad Province ), Albania ( Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo ), Serbia ( Prohor Pčinjski and Gora ( region ) | Gora ).

Modern May Day ceremonies in the U. S. vary greatly from region to region and many unite both the holiday's " Green Root " ( pagan ) and " Red Root " ( labor ) traditions.

His trademark style can be seen widely in Switzerland particularly the Ticino region and also in the Mediatheque in Villeurbanne ( 1988 ), a cathedral in Évry ( 1995 ), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art or SFMOMA ( 1994 ).

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 women's swimsuits are generally skintight, either two pieces covering only the breasts and pelvic region ( see bikini ), or a single piece covering these areas and the torso between them.

Modern Turkmenistan was radically transformed by the invasion of the Russian Empire, which conquered the region in the late 19th century.

Modern examples include video recorders being forced by law to include Macrovision copy protection, the DVD region code system and region-coded video game consoles.

Locris ( Greek, Modern: Lokrida, Ancient: Lokris ) was a region of ancient Greece, the homeland of the Locrians, made up of three distinct districts.

Latin transliteration, as well as Modern Greek pronunciation, may suggest that the Ionian Sea and Islands are somehow related to Ionia, an Anatolian region ; in fact the Ionian Sea and Ionian Islands are spelled in Greek with an omicron ( Ιόνια ), whereas Ionia has an omega ( Ιωνία ).

Modern positional cloning can more directly extract information from genomic sequencing projects and existing data by analyzing the genes in the candidate region.

Modern farming techniques and a series of rainy years helped to reestablish the area as an important farming region ; however, farming has always been precarious, and to this day the area's farmers often receive large government subsidies to deal with drought conditions.

But the Rockhopper's congeners occur on remote islands in the New Zealand region, whereas the rockhopper penguins are found in places that were visited by explorers and whalers since the Early Modern era.

Modern residents believed the name was too localised, so the name of one of the major roads was adopted ( oddly, however, this road is localised to the region between Bulleen and Doncaster ).

Modern accounts hold that there were eighteen peoples in the region.

Modern revanchist politics often center around certain areas of historic competition and claims of ownership, as in the cases of Carpathian Ruthenia, Kosovo, with its Albanian majority, the Republic of Macedonia, and in the South-central Asian region of Kashmir, with its Muslim majority.

Given the cultural, economic and political prestige which Latin enjoyed, the Gauls eventually abandoned their language in favor of Latin, which evolved in this region until eventually it took the form of Modern French.

Modern day Matabeleland is a region in Zimbabwe divided into three provinces: Matabeleland North, Bulawayo and Matabeleland South.