Examples include a leopard's spotted coat, the battledress of a modern soldier and a leaf-mimic butterfly.

Footprints of its feet have been found showing a covering of hair which indicates it had a coat similar to a modern wombat.

For example, the sentence " The coat is red " has no observer, the sentence " We see the coat as red " ( where " we " indicates observers ) appears more specific in context as regards light waves and colour as determined by modern science, that is, colour results from a reaction in the human brain.

The focus of modern heraldry is the armorial achievement, or the coat of arms, the central element of which is the escutcheon or shield.

The menorah has been a symbol of Judaism since ancient times and is the emblem on the coat of arms of the modern state of Israel.

The harsh, wiry coat in modern dogs is only seen in self-coloured various shades of gray ( blue-gray is preferred ).

In an attempt to appeal to a modern audience, the university chose in 2004 to simplify its logo from the original coat of arms to the current " us " logo.

The modern coat of arms was inherited from the County of Flanders.

The modern use of the leopard as an emblem for sport or a coat of arms is much more restricted to Africa, though numerous products worldwide have used the name.

These traditional lions passant guardant appear in the coat of arms of England and many of its former colonies ; more modern naturalistic ( leopard-like ) depictions appear on the coat of arms of several African nations including Benin, Malawi, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon, which uses a black panther.

The modern logo is fashioned on the coat of arms.

The coat of arms was created in 1972 at the time the modern municipalities of Sweden were created.

In line with many other municipalities adopting modern fashions, the municipal government decided in 2002 to introduce a new house style with a modern logo replacing the coat of arms in communication and on municipal documents.

Today, the mouse deer is part of modern Malacca's coat of arms.

The arms of the three original leagues are were combined into the modern cantonal coat of arms in 1933.

These paintings depicted a dog larger than the modern breed, reportedly weighing as much as, but showing modern traits such as the heavy coat, ears and a tail curled over the back.

The coat of arms is from modern times.

The coat of arms is from modern times.

The coat of arms is modern, having been granted on 19 December 1986.

The coat of arms is quite modern, having been adopted in 1949 after a local competition.

The American firearms and ammunition manufacturers through diligent research and technical development have replaced the muzzle loader and slow-firing single-shot arms with modern fast firing auto-loaders, extremely accurate bolt, lever, and slide action firearms.

For the first time, armored cars or limousines were put into service for safer transport, with modern versions virtually invulnerable to small arms fire, smaller bombs and mines.

Bulgaria has a military stockpile of about 5, 000, 000 small arms, models ranging from World War II-era MP 40 machine pistols to modern Steyr AUG, AK-74, HK MP5, HK416 and AR-M2F assault rifles.

The first was the quality of its arms, as the Italian and British colonial authorities could sabotage the transportation of 30, 000-60, 000 modern Mosin – Nagant rifles and Berdan rifles from Russia into landlocked Ethiopia.

The brass cartridge also opened the way for modern repeating arms, by uniting the bullet, gunpowder and primer into one assembly that could be fed reliably into the breech by a mechanical action in the firearm.

Heraldry flourishes in the modern world ; institutions, companies, and private persons continue using coats of arms as their pictorial identification.

H. habilis was short and had disproportionately long arms compared to modern humans ; however, it had a less protruding face than the australopithecines from which it is thought to have descended.

As the oldest branch of combat arms, they are still the backbone of modern armies.

Before the outbreak of the Korean War, Joseph Stalin equipped the KPA with modern medium tanks, trucks, artillery, and small arms.

Strauss concludes his 1958 Thoughts on Machiavelli by proposing that this promotion of progress leads directly to the modern arms race.

Strauss argued that the unavoidable nature of such arms races, which have existed before modern times and led to the collapse of peaceful civilizations, provides us with both an explanation of what is most truly dangerous in Machiavelli's innovations, but also the way in which the aims of his apparently immoral innovation can be understood.

Hannibal did not cross the Ebro River ( Saguntum was near modern Valencia – well south of the river ) in arms, and the Saguntines provoked his attack by attacking their neighboring tribes who were Carthaginian protectorates and by massacring pro-Punic factions in their city.

In recent years Syria has relied on Russian arms purchases to obtain modern weapons.

The modern structures face the Thames and include an entry way that displays More's arms, heraldic beasts, and a Latin maxim.

Although the use of offset crankpins, counterweights, and flying arms has reduced the problem to a minor second-order vibration in modern designs, all V6s can benefit from the addition of auxiliary balance shafts to make them completely smooth.

However, more modern designs often use a 3-throw crankshaft with what are termed flying arms between the crankpins, which not only give the required 120 ° separation but also can be used for balancing purposes.

By 1972, the clean and press was discontinued because athletes started to push with legs and bend backwards instead of strictly pressing the weight overhead, and this left the sole elements of what is today's modern Olympic weightlifting programme – the snatch and the clean and jerk. The snatch entails pulling with a wide grip the barbell overhead without pressing out with the arms. It is a very precise lift that can be nullified by a lack of balance of the athlete. The clean and jerk is more forgiving using a narrower grip pull the bar to the shoulders and then using the strength of the legs push until arms reach full extension without a press out.

The plan worked and this tactic helped write the doctrine of the supremacy of the defensive position, using modern small arms and trench fortifications.

The oldest known canals were irrigation canals, built in Mesopotamia circa 4000 BC, in what is now modern day Iraq and Syria.

However, the 2010 sequencing of the Neanderthal genome indicated that Neanderthals did indeed interbreed with anatomically modern humans circa 45, 000 to 80, 000 years ago ( at the approximate time that modern humans migrated out from Africa, but before they dispersed into Europe, Asia and elsewhere ).

The First Emperor Qin Shi Huang ( circa 221 BC, who unified the 7 pre-Imperial Kingdoms ) was buried under a large mound outside modern day Xi ' an.

References to Canaanites are also found throughout the Amarna letters of Pharaoh Akenaton circa 1350 BC, and a reference to the " land of Canaan " is found on the statue of Idrimi of Alalakh in modern Syria.

* Jesus: Due to 4 BC being the year of King Herod's death, it is usually cited by modern Biblical literalists as being the last possible birth year of Jesus ( d. circa AD 30 ).

The first modern orrery was built circa 1704 by George Graham and Thomas Tompion.

A more modern theory attributes tree growth during a time of global cold temperatures during the Little Ice Age associated with unusually low solar activity of the Maunder Minimum, circa 1645 to 1750, during which cooler temperatures throughout Europe are believed to have caused stunted and slowed tree growth, resulting in unusually dense wood.

Aerial view of the Rock of Cashel, circa 1970, prior to any modern work

While the use of the word to describe what is now known as jungle is debatable, the emergence of the term in relation to electronic music circles can be roughly traced to lyrics used in Jamaican toasting ( a pre-cursor to modern MCs ), circa 1970.

** 2 to Dorking It was refurbished for the introduction of modern units when slam-door trains were replaced circa 2005.

* Zab Emirate, modern Algeria circa 1400 ( short-lived )

There also existed a secondary school named after him in Enfield, in the Northern part of the modern Greater London that is traditionally known as Middlesex, until its closure circa 1980 ; as well as a grammar school for boys in West Derby, Liverpool, until 1983, when it was renamed, instead, after Cardinal Heenan.

It was circa 107 600 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, compared to 69 700 km < sup > 2 </ sup > in modern Georgia.

The phrase of " coloured " Ruś first appeared in Western European sources circa 1360, but referring to Red Ruthenia ( in modern Ukraine ).

Its grounds consists of two connected campuses ; an older south campus of 19th century buildings, shared with St Patrick's College, and a modern north campus, occupying circa.

In the United States circa 1900, before the introduction and improvement of modern medical technologies, there were about 700 maternal deaths per 100, 000 births (. 7 %).

Al-Jayyani ( 989 – 1079 ), an Arabic mathematician in the Islamic Iberian Peninsula, wrote what some consider the first treatise on spherical trigonometry, circa 1060, entitled The book of unknown arcs of a sphere, in which spherical trigonometry was brought into its modern form.

Ran Min's father Ran Liang ( 冉良 ), who later changed his name to Ran Zhan ( 冉瞻 ), and from Wei Commandery ( 魏郡, roughly modern Handan, Hebei ) and was a descendant of an aristocratic family, but one who must have, in the serious famines circa 310, joined a group of refugees led by Chen Wu ( 陳午 ).

The city-state of Gezer ( named Gazru in Babylonian and unrelated to modern day Gaza which was named Hazzatu ) was ruled by four leaders during the 20-year period covered by the Amarna letters circa 1350 BC.

John of Biclaro, Biclar, or Biclarum ( circa 540-after 621 ), also Iohannes Biclarensis, was a Visigoth chronicler, born in Lusitania, in the city of Scallabis ( modern Santarém in Portugal ), who must have been from a Catholic family, to judge from his name.

The first known recorded mention of Eboracum by name is dated circa 95-104 AD and is an address containing the Latin form of the settlement's name, " Eburaci ", on a wooden stylus tablet from the Roman fortress of Vindolanda in what is now the modern Northumberland.

" South Park Republican " was a term that first circulated in blogs and articles on the Internet between the years circa 2001 and 2002, used to describe what some modern commentators describe as a " new wave " or generation of young adults and teenagers who hold center-right political beliefs that are, in general, aligned with those portrayed in the popular American animated television program South Park.

" Ned Raggett of Allmusic gave the EP three stars out of five, calling it " quick, immediate, goofy, fun " and " a hyperspeed trashing of modern youth Kultur circa 1981 ".