The heaviest armored cars, such as the German, World War II era SdKfz 234 or the modern, US M1128 Mobile Gun System, mount the same guns that arm medium tanks.

The Siege of the Alcázar in the Spanish Civil War, in which the Nationalists held out against a much larger Republican force for two months until relieved, shows that in some cases a citadel can be effective even in modern warfare ; a similar case is the Battle of Huế, where an NVA division held the citadel of Huế for 26 days against roughly their own numbers of much better-equipped US and South Vietnamese troops.

In modern Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, the keyboard layouts US International and UK International feature dead keys that allow one to type Latin letters with the acute, grave, circumflex, diæresis, tilde, and cedilla found in Western European languages ( specifically, those combinations found in the ISO Latin-1 character set ) directly: "+ e gives ë, ~+ o gives õ, etc.

King Philip II was said to have offered a reward of 20, 000 ducats, about £ 4 million ( US $ 6. 5M ) by modern standards, for his life.

The increasing raw scores appear on every major test, in every age range and in every modern industrialized country although not necessarily at the same rate as in the US using the WISC.

In 2006 there was one operational set of traffic lights but in July 2007, a modern system was installed by Indian firm CMS Traffic Systems Limited, through a US $ 2. 1 million line of credit to the government from India ’ s EXIM Bank, providing signals for both vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

Owing to the large market of antique and replica black powder firearms in the US, modern gunpowder substitutes like Pyrodex, Triple Seven and Black Mag3 pellets have been developed since the 1970s.

Perhaps the first instrument of modern public international law was the Lieber Code, passed in 1863 by the Congress of the United States, to govern the conduct of US forces during the United States Civil War and considered to be the first written recitation of the rules and articles of war, adhered to by all civilized nations, the precursor of public international law.

In modern secular law, notably some US states, prohibit marriages between first cousins.

* 1811 – Explorer David Thompson posts a sign at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers ( in modern Washington state, US ), claiming the land for the United Kingdom.

Many other modern machine guns, including the US M60 and the FN MAG borrow elements of the design of the MG42.

However, many modern tanks ( such as those operated by the US and NATO ) have onboard fire suppression systems.

" That a community has different components whose interests must be balanced in any good regime is an idea with classical precedents, but Machiavelli's particularly extreme presentation is seen as a critical step towards the later political ideas of both a division of powers or checks and balances, ideas which lay behind the US constitution ( and most modern constitutions ).

The Quasi War has taken on a significant role in modern debates over the distribution of war powers between the Executive and Legislative branches in the US.

In 1980, the silver price rose to a peak for modern times of US $ 49. 45 per troy ounce ( ozt ) due to market manipulation of Nelson Bunker Hunt and Herbert Hunt.

In the modern sense, this would be Islam's equivalent to US Social Security or UK National Insurance.

* September 12 – One of the successes of the Revolutions of 1848, the Swiss Federal Constitution, patterned on the US Constitution, enters into force, creating a federal republic and one of the first modern democratic states in Europe.

Between 1920 and 1924, while Pershing was Army Chief of Staff, Marshall worked in a number of positions in the US Army, focusing on training and teaching modern, mechanized warfare.

*-A modern illustrated guide to identification of US waterfowl.

The Performance Improvement Program variant, K55A1, is a complete domestic overhaul of the K55 which is further augmented by Samsung Thales with modern digital ballistic computers, multifunctional data display and controllers, GPS navigation and target acquisition system, wireless datalink equipment, and upgraded fire control storage battery and power supply unit, to closely match the US military's modernization of the Paladin into next-generation standard.

The M1128 Mobile Gun System variation of the Stryker armoured fighting vehicle is the nearest analogue in the modern US Army force structure.

In the early 20th century, as modern transportation and communication systems developed, Bermuda's tourism industry began to develop and thrive, and Bermuda became a popular destination for a broader spectrum of wealthy US, Canadian, and British tourists.

The route started at St. Joseph, Missouri on the Missouri River, it then followed what is modern day US 36 — the Pony Express Highway — to Marysville, Kansas, where it turned northwest following Little Blue River to Fort Kearny in Nebraska.

Some of the better known modern experiments include the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland, Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Twin Oaks and Los Horcones ( inspired by B. F. Skinner's Walden Two ) and The Farm in the US, ZEGG in Germany, Camphill Communities ( all over, but originating in Europe ), and Auroville in India.

There were other persons in the US who independently thought of " Father's Day ", but the credit for the modern holiday is often given to Sonora Dodd, who was the driving force behind its establishment.

Originally a dark beer, a modern bock can range from light copper to brown in colour.

According to the Regulations and Instructions relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea, which had been published for the first time in 1733 by the Admiralty, sailors were entitled to a gallon of weak beer daily ( 5 / 6 of the usual British gallon, equivalent to the modern American gallon or slightly more than three and a half litres ).

The introduction to Germany of modern refrigeration by Carl von Linde in the late 19th century eliminated the need for caves for beer storage, enabling the brewing of bottom-fermenting beer in many new locations.

The modern trend is toward consumers increasingly choosing stronger beer than the 3. 5 % abv brands, generally referred to as folköl ( people's beer ) sold at grocery stores.

The Pils is the original lager beer of which all modern lagers are copies.

* Myod — Traditional Russian mead, historically available in three major varieties: aged mead (" мёд ставленный ") — a mixture of honey and water and / or berry juices, subject to a very slow ( 12 – 50 years ) anaerobic fermentation in airtight vessels in a process similar to the traditional balsamic vinegar, creating a rich, complex and high-priced product ; drinking mead (" мёд питный ") — a kind of honey wine made from diluted honey by traditional fermentation ; and boiled mead (" мёд варёный ") — a drink closer to beer, brewed from boiled wort of diluted honey and herbs, very similar to modern medovukha.

A major component of the film is the mixing of the old and modern ; Chiron and Demetrius dress like modern rock stars, but the Andronici dress like Roman soldiers ; some characters use chariots, some use cars and motorcycles ; crossbows and swords are used alongside rifles and pistols ; tanks are seen driven by soldiers in ancient Roman garb ; bottled beer is seen alongside ancient bottles of wine ; microphones are used to address characters in ancient clothing.

Marr condemned ' the beer drinking leaders, the gay " Heil " shouters of modern anti-Semitism ' and crude prejudice against Jewish writers and thinkers.

Such cultures ( sometimes referred to in old American cookery as " emptins ", from their origins as the dregs of beer or cider fermentation ) would become the ancestors of modern baker's yeast, as they generally were carefully maintained to avoid what would later be discovered to be bacterial contamination, including using preservatives such as hops as well as boiling the growth medium.

The original play and the movie were created at a time when Australian football was in a state of flux, moving from a semi-professional state ( where players were paid " beer " money for their services ) to the modern, fully professional, franchised structure that is know today as the Australian Football League.

Generally, beer in modern Chinese is referred to by the compound ( binomial character / syllable ) word (), and would be distinguished as a specific type from the main generic type of jiu.

Celebrations consist of a lot of traditional and mostly Pagan elements-eating Jāņi cheese ( special recipe with caraway seeds ), drinking beer, baking pīrāgi, singing hundreds of Latvian folk songs dedicated to Jāņi, burning bonfire to keep light all through the night and jumping over it, wearing wreaths of flowers ( for women ) and oak leaves ( for men ) together with modern commercial products and ideas.

In the 1990s, the Boon brewery made a modern Mars beer called Lembeek's 2 % ( the 2 % referring to the alcohol content ), but its production has since been discontinued.

Some students at Lafayette College, rivals of Lehigh, insist modern, paddle-less beer pong was invented at their school, but The Lafayette, the college's student newspaper, says there is no proof to back up the assertion.

The first modern drug store was opened in 1879, a photo store in 1892, hospital in 1880 and beer factory in 1889 ( Šećerović beer factory ).

The modern theory of beer style is largely based on the work done by Michael Jackson in his 1977 book The World Guide To Beer in which Jackson categorised a variety of beers from around the world in local style groups suggested by local customs and names.

In early modern times, beer brewing and Elm limestone mining and cutting were its main industries.

The Bavarian lager was still different from the widely-known modern lager ; due to the use of dark malts it was quite dark, representing what is now called Dunkel beer or the stronger variety, Bock beer.

Sckell's enlargement of the lake brought it close to Kleinhesselohe ; and the little beer garden there was to be a forerunner of the modern Seehaus (" lake house "), with 2, 500 seats.

From a 21st-century viewpoint, the Gang in some ways bears little resemblance to the modern media's portrayal of environmentalists — the book's characters eat a lot of red meat, own firearms, litter the roadside with empty beer cans and drive big cars.