The Behistun Inscription ( also Bistun or Bisutun, Modern Persian: بیستون < Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning " the place of god ") is a multi-lingual inscription located on Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran.

The basis of western astronomy as taught during Late Antiquity and until the Early Modern period is the Almagest by Ptolemy, written in the 2nd century.

The massive use of charcoal on an industrial scale in Early Modern Europe was a new type of consumption of western forests ; even in Stuart England, the relatively primitive production of charcoal has already reached an impressive level.

Modern western mysticism and new age philosophy often use the term ' the Divine ' as a noun in this latter sense: a non-specific principle and / or being that gives rise to the world, and acts as the source or wellspring of life.

When a student is taking western classical music lessons, music teachers often spend some time explaining the different eras of western classical music, such as the Baroque era, the Classical era, the Romantic era, and the Modern era, because each era is associated with different styles of music and different performance practice techniques.

Modern western knotting literature has the name for these related knots deriving from stories or legends in which the knots symbolize the connection between a couple in love.

Modern knowledge of Bosnia in the western Balkans during the Dark Ages is patchy.

Modern Ossetic has two major dialects: Digor, spoken in the western part of North Ossetia ; and Iron, spoken in the rest of Ossetia.

Modern western culture usually looks at Monday as the beginning of the workweek, as it is typically Monday when adults go back to work and children go back to school after the weekend.

Modern conjectural depiction of the lost western section of the Tabula Peutingeriana, showing a representation of the Pillars of Hercules ( Columne Ercole ).

The debate intensified with the advent of Nynorsk in the 19th century, a written language based on Modern Norwegian dialects ( particularly from western Norway ) and puristic opposition to Danish and Dano-Norwegian.

Modern whaling for Bryde's whales is thought to have begun from coastal stations in Japan in 1906, where it continued uninterrupted until 1987 — they were also caught offshore in the western North Pacific by both Japanese ( 1971 – 79 ) and Soviet ( 1966 – 79 ) fleets, as well as from Taiwan ( 1976 – 80 ), the Bonin Islands ( 1946 – 52 and 1981 – 87 ) and the Philippines ( 1983 – 85 ).

The Hua Yue Tuan ( 華乐团 ), or " Modern Chinese Orchestra ," is made up of a blend of western and traditional Chinese musical instruments.

The site of Beaubourg, the western part of Marais, was chosen for the Centre Georges Pompidou, France's national Museum of Modern Art and one of the world's most important cultural institutions.

Modern groups and researchers of the " Rosicrucian Enlightenment " suggest that there is much evidence that the Rosicrucian Order not only has made herself known in the early 17th century through the Rosicrucian Manifestos, but has been active since the beginning of the Renaissance period, not only as an hermetic Order, but also through forerunners – geniuses of the western world, sometimes also known to be Freemasons – in the literary, cultural, ethical, political, religious and scientific fields.

Modern large-scale industry began developing during World War II, when sixteen enterprises from western regions of the country were evacuated here in 1941-1942.

Modern jeans began to appear in the 1920s, but sales were largely confined to the working people of the western United States, such as cowboys, lumberjacks, and railroad workers.

In common with most western Arabic varieties, the equivalent of Modern Standard Arabic is realised as.

Modern American public administration is an extension of democratic governance, justified by classic and liberal philosophers of the western world ranging from Aristotle to John Locke to Thomas Jefferson

Many western scholars distinguish two varieties: the Classical Arabic of the Qur ' an and early Islamic ( 7th to 9th centuries ) literature ; and Modern Standard Arabic ( MSA ), the standard language in use today.

Modern linguistic studies have determined that the Sicels spoke an Indo-European language and occupied eastern Sicily as well as southern Italy whereas the Sicani ( Greek: Sikanoi ) and Elymi ( Greek Elymoi ) inhabited central and western Sicily.

Modern western saddles for riders who need speed and agility, such as barrel racing saddles, often have a 3 / 4 rigging, the closest placement to a center-fire rigging seen on modern saddles.

According to Alice Faber ( based on Hetzron's work ), together with Ethiopian Semitic languages ( such as the contemporary Ge ' ez language ) and the Modern South Arabian languages ( not descended from Old South Arabian but from a sister language ), they formed the western branch of the South Semitic languages.

Modern western calligraphy

Modern self-propelled artillery vehicles may superficially resemble tanks, but they are generally lightly armoured, too lightly to survive in direct-fire combat.

Modern cisterns are usually large plastic tanks.

Modern tanks possess very thick composite armour consisting of layers of steel, ceramics, plastics and Kevlar, and these materials have melting points well above the burning temperature of gasoline, which makes the vehicles themselves invulnerable to Molotov cocktails.

Modern self-propelled artillery vehicles may superficially resemble tanks, but they are generally lightly armoured, too lightly to survive in direct-fire combat.

Modern amenities were unknown ; telephones were unknown, drinking water was collected in tanks from roofs and at night the rooms were lit by oil lamps.

Modern dinghies will usually have built in buoyancy tanks, older craft will have bags or retrofitted tanks.

Modern arms of the Blue Army, especially airplanes and Renault FT-17 tanks enhanced the Polish Armed Forces yet to be founded.

Modern street sweepers are equipped with water tanks and sprayers used to loosen particles and reduce dust.

Modern rocket propelled grenades can penetrate almost of steel armour, posing a serious threat to tanks operating in environments of asymmetric warfare.

Modern environmental regulations either discourage or ban the use of cesspools, and instead connections to municipal sewage systems or septic tanks are encouraged or required.

Modern Soviet tanks, like the ones mentioned, are typically armed with 125mm smooth bore guns.

Modern tankers also use segregated ballast tanks and these remove the problem of discharge of ballast water.

Modern vehicles may contain multiple airbag modules in various side and frontal locations of the passenger seating positions, and sensors may deploy one or more airbags in an impact zone at variable rates based on the type, angle and severity of impact ; the airbag is designed to only inflate in moderate to severe frontal crashes.

Modern reconstruction of a Vielle depicted in a painting by Hans MemlingThe vielle () is a European bowed stringed instrument used in the Medieval period, similar to a modern violin but with a somewhat longer and deeper body, five ( rather than four ) gut strings, and a leaf-shaped pegbox with frontal tuning pegs.

Image: Laocoön and His Sons. jpg | Modern frontal view

Some important changes in sound during the Modern Swedish period were the gradual assimilation of several different consonant clusters into and the softening of / g / and / k / into / ʝ / and before frontal vowels.

Modern tract tracing studies have shown that projections of the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus are not restricted to the granular frontal cortex in primates.