In philosophy and the humanities, Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, was born in El Biar in Algiers ; Malek Bennabi and Frantz Fanon are noted for their thoughts on decolonization ; Augustine of Hippo was born in Tagaste ( modern-day Souk Ahras ); and Ibn Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddima while staying in Algeria.

His name also survives in modern-day companies such as Dynamit Nobel and Akzo Nobel, which are descendants of the companies Nobel himself established.

But modern-day civil defendants are usually able to avoid most ( if not all ) court appearances if represented by a lawyer.

The interlinked ' X's are incorporated in the modern-day ExxonMobil corporate logo, but the original Exxon logo continues for marketing and station signage.

The recession of the glaciers is so recent ( in geologic terms ) that modern-day drainage patterns are immature and poorly established.

As the four " modern-day " factors are all essentially abstract, the current economic age has been called the Intangible Economy.

One custom that persists in modern-day Ireland is the baking ( or more often nowadays, the purchase ) of a barmbrack (), which is a light fruitcake, into which a plain ring, a coin and other charms are placed before baking.

They slowly moved south, and the earliest ironworks in modern-day KwaZulu-Natal Province are believed to date from around 1050.

Extant species in the Cryptobranchidae family are the modern-day members of a lineage that extends back millions of years — the earliest fossil records of a basal species date back to the Middle Jurassic and were found in volcanic deposits in northern China.

* Domestic pigs, which are descended from wild boars, are known to have existed about 2500 BC in modern-day Hungary and in Troy ; earlier pottery from Jericho and Egypt depicts wild pigs.

The modern-day minority of Mongolic-speaking Daurs in China are their direct descendants based on DNA evidence.

The personages of Pierrot and Columbine are transported into modern-day settings and inserted into an occasionally mawkish or nostalgic love plot with equal doses of laughter mingled with pain and regret.

Keel suggests that MiBs are a modern-day manifestation of the same phenomena that were earlier interpreted as the devil or encounters with fairies.

In modern-day Saudi Arabia, the Grand Mosque and all of Mecca are open only to Muslims.

While exploration and mining can sometimes be conducted by individual entrepreneurs or small business, most modern-day mines are large enterprises requiring large amounts of capital to establish.

Metal-coated glass mirrors are said to have been invented in Sidon ( modern-day Lebanon ) in the first century AD, and glass mirrors backed with gold leaf are mentioned by the Roman author Pliny in his Natural History, written in about 77 AD.

Skeptics such as James Randi suggest that his reputation as a prophet is largely manufactured by modern-day supporters who fit his words to events that have either already occurred or are so imminent as to be inevitable, a process sometimes known as " retroactive clairvoyance " ( postdiction ).

Its ruins are across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq.

Today, state-of-the-art boat design and leading-edge technology are pushing the barriers and extending the boundaries of the modern-day racers in their relentless pursuit of competitive excellence.

Historical maps of the ancient Aksum / Abyssinian Empire and Adal / Somali empires indicate that Oromo people are newcomers to most of modern-day central Ethiopia.

Anatolian sources of obsidian are known to have been the material used in the Levant and modern-day Iraqi Kurdistan from a time beginning sometime about 12, 500 BC.

The first known inhabitants of the modern-day Pakistan region are believed to have been the Soanian ( Homo erectus ), who settled in the Soan Valley and Riwat 1. 9 million years ago.

Little is known about the Achaemenid Persian invasion of modern-day Pakistan as historical sources and evidence are scant and fragmentary containing little detail.

The first Federalist leader in the Platine Region was José Gervasio Artigas, who opposed the centralist governments in Buenos Aires that followed the May Revolution, and created instead the Federal League in 1814 among several Argentine Provinces and the Banda Oriental ( modern-day Uruguay ).

It was then-Disney Studio President Jeffrey Katzenberg who insisted the film should be re-written as a modern-day fairy tale with qualities of a love story, as opposed to being the dark drama it was originally developed as.

The original settlement of the town of Swanley ( as opposed to modern-day Swanley Village ) was based around Birchwood which does get mention in later medieval and early modern documents.

4L60Es manufactured after 1995 use the modern-day snap-in connections as opposed to threaded SAE fittings.

He ruled part of modern-day Xinjiang and Central Asia during the 13th century, and actively opposed his uncle, Kublai Khan, who established the Yuan Dynasty in China until his death in 1301.

Linguistic and genetic evidence shows that there has been long-term contact between Australians in the far north and the Austronesian people of modern-day New Guinea and the islands, but that this appears to have been mostly trade with a little intermarriage, as opposed to direct colonisation.

* 1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.

He was granted lands by the crown, and built the first fortification of the city that evolved into modern-day Copenhagen.

He made donations to various charitable endeavors using the money he made from his activities, and was viewed by many to be a " modern-day Robin Hood ".

Excavations in modern-day Iraq by Ernest de Sarzec in 1877 found evidence of the earliest known code of justice, issued by the Sumerian king Urukagina of Lagash ca 2300 BC.

This is one of the many issues being addressed by third wave feminism as well as the modern-day masculist movement.

Under the doctrine of continuing revelation, Latter-day Saints believe that Jesus Christ, under the direction of Heavenly Father, leads the church by revealing His will to its president, whom adherents regard as a modern-day " prophet, seer, and revelator ".

" The church teaches that " he most reliable way to measure the accuracy of any biblical passage is not by comparing different texts, but by comparison with the Book of Mormon and modern-day revelations ".

A modern-day version of the bundle theory of the mind has been advanced by Derek Parfit in his Reasons and Persons ( 1986 ).

Its modern-day function was originated by the innovations of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, an 18th-century German playwright, philosopher, and theorist about theatre.

The Inca civilization expansion northward from modern-day Peru during the late 15th century met with fierce resistance by several Ecuadorian tribes, particularly the Cañari, in the region around modern-day Cuenca ; the Cara in the Sierra north of Quito along with the Quitu, occupants of the site of the modern capital, with whom they had formed the Kingdom of Quito.

* Joseph K, written by Tom Basden and based on The Trial, takes place in modern-day London, with the protagonist cast as a City banker.

On November 20, 1910, Madero arrived at the border and planned to meet up with 400 men raised by his uncle Catarino to launch an attack on Ciudad Porfirio Díaz ( modern-day Piedras Negras, Coahuila ).

In particular, the count of arithmetic operations is usually the focus of such questions, although actual performance on modern-day computers is determined by many other factors such as cache or CPU pipeline optimization.

It has also been used to hearken back to the Roman republic, particularly by those who see themselves as modern-day successors to the old republic and / or its ideals.

There have been many examples throughout modern-day Europe by groups who harass and threaten many different racial groups.

The Punjabi kingdom, ruled by members of the Sikh religion, was a political entity that governed the region of modern-day Punjab.

The word malinchismo is used by some modern-day Mexicans to refer pejoratively to those countrymen who prefer a different way of life from that of their local culture, or a life with other outside influences.

Smith was seen by his followers as a modern-day prophet.