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Since their rise to fame in recent years, singer Justin Bieber, boy band One Direction and country-pop musician Taylor Swift have become recent examples of modern-day teen idols who have achieved international success, known for their devoted teen and tween fan base.
The plot of the film roughly follows that of the novel, changing the setting, however, to that of a modern-day French lycée ( high school ), thus quoting both the novel, and the reason for its contemporary fame.

modern-day and were
Units of the Bonn legion were deployed to theatres of war ranging from modern-day Algeria to what is now the Russian republic of Chechnya.
In a classical context, people were called " civilized " to set them apart from barbarians, savages, and primitive peoples while in a modern-day context, " civilized peoples " have been contrasted with indigenous peoples or tribal societies.
Walter Frederick Morrison discovered a market for the modern-day flying disc in 1938 when he and future wife Lucile were offered US25 cents for a cake pan that they were tossing back and forth to each other on the beach in Santa Monica, California.
The oldest surviving gun, made of bronze, has been dated to 1288 because it was discovered at a site in modern-day Acheng District, Heilongjiang, China, where the Yuan Shi records that battles were fought at that time.
The fortifications, known to the British as the Spanish Lines, and to Spain as La Línea de Contravalación were the origin of modern-day town of La Línea de la Concepción.
Several great cities were built in the region named " Alexandria ," including: Alexandria-of-the-Arians ( modern-day Herat ); Alexandria-on-the-Tarnak ( near Kandahar ); Alexandria-ad-Caucasum ( near Begram, at Bordj-i-Abdullah ); and finally, Alexandria-Eschate ( near Kojend ), in the north.
The most important were Apollonia, Avlona ( modern-day Vlorë ), Epidamnos ( modern-day Durrës ), and Lissus ( modern-day Lezhë ).
The lands comprising modern-day Albania were incorporated into the Roman Empire as part of the province of Illyricum above the river Drin, and Roman Macedonia ( specifically as Epirus Nova ) below it.
Just prior to Saharan desertification, the communities that developed south of Egypt in what is now modern-day Sudan were full participants in the Neolithic revolution and lived a settled to semi-nomadic lifestyle, with domesticated plants and animals.
Most of the region was a part of the Kingdom of Sweden from the 13th century to 1809, when the vast majority of the Finnish-speaking areas of Sweden were ceded to the Russian Empire ( excluding the Finnish-speaking areas of the modern-day Northern Sweden ), making this area the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland.
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.
As a result, the five tribes were resettled in the new Indian Territory in modern-day Oklahoma and parts of Kansas.
After the initial discovery of introns in protein-coding genes of the eukaryotic nucleus, there was significant debate as to whether introns in modern-day organisms were inherited from a common ancient ancestor ( termed the introns-early hypothesis ), or whether they appeared in genes rather recently in the evolutionary process ( termed the introns-late hypothesis ).
Various saints such as the Celts Samson of Dol and Branwaldr ( Brelade ) were active in the region, although tradition has it that it was Saint Helier from Tongeren in modern-day Belgium who first brought Christianity to the Island in the 6th century, and Charlemagne sent his emissary to the island ( at that time called Angia, also spelt Agna )< ref >
The Khazars ( Old Turkic: 10px10px10px10px10px ) were semi-nomadic Turkic people who established one of the largest polities of medieval Eurasia, with the capital of Atil and territory comprising much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus ( Circassia, Dagestan ), parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and northeastern Turkey.
In 1787, Britain had started to resettle the Black Poor of London in the colony of Freetown in modern-day Sierra Leone, many of whom were Black Loyalists who had been freed in exchange for their services during the American Revolution.
While the Visigoths were invading, in 406 the Alans, Vandals, and Suevi crossed into Gaul ; over the next three years they spread across Gaul and in 409 crossed the Pyrenees Mountains into modern-day Spain.
In late Roman times, the provincial boundaries were reorganized to form the Diocese of Macedonia, consisting of most of modern mainland Greece right across the Aegean to include Crete, southern Albania, and parts of modern-day Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia.
Keel suggests that MiBs are a modern-day manifestation of the same phenomena that were earlier interpreted as the devil or encounters with fairies.
Some of these Viennese pianos had the opposite coloring of modern-day pianos ; the natural keys were black and the accidental keys white.
In the Russian Empire, Jews were restricted to the so-called Pale of Settlement, the Western frontier of the Russian Empire corresponding roughly to the modern-day countries of Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine.
Some of Tim Powers novels are examples of this, such as Last Call, which suggests that Bugsy Siegel's actions were due to his being a modern-day Fisher King.

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Aristotle, whose name means " the best purpose ," was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC, about east of modern-day Thessaloniki.
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.
He is referring to the twinned monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, near modern-day Newcastle, claimed as his birthplace, there is also a tradition that he was born at Monkton, two miles from the monastery at Jarrow.
He was born in Scania, then part of Denmark, now part of modern-day Sweden.
Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, in a four-story brownstone at 28 East 20th Street, in the modern-day Gramercy section of New York City, the second of four children of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. ( 1831 – 1878 ) and Martha " Mittie " Bulloch ( 1835 – 1884 ).
He was born in Córdoba, Al Andalus, modern-day Spain, and died in Marrakesh, Morocco.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus ( November 3, 39 AD – April 30, 65 AD ), better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, born in Corduba ( modern-day Córdoba ), in the Hispania Baetica.
Josquin was born in the area controlled by the Dukes of Burgundy, and was possibly born either in Hainaut ( modern-day Belgium ), or immediately across the border in modern-day France, since several times in his life he was classified legally as a Frenchman ( for instance, when he made his will ).
Many are not born in Europe or in the modern-day state of Germany or hold German citizenship.
Ghiyāth ad-Din Abu ' l-Fat ' h ' Umar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām Nīshāpūrī () was born in Nishapur, modern-day Iran, but then a Seljuq capital in Khorasan, which rivaled Cairo or Baghdad in cultural prominence in that era.
President Abraham Lincoln was born in what was then Hardin County near Hodgenville, now part of modern-day LaRue County.
The modern-day city was born in the next few decades, when beautiful Baroque buildings were built in place of the old medieval ones.
Constantius was born in Naissus ( modern-day Niš, Serbia ) and was probably a career soldier, who reached the rank of magister militum under Honorius.
Tōgō was born on 27 January 1848 ( by the Western calendar ) in the Kajiya-chō ( 加治屋町 ) district of the city of Kagoshima in Satsuma domain ( modern-day Kagoshima prefecture ), in feudal Japan, the third of four sons of Tōgō Sanetomo ( 1805-1867 ), a samurai serving the Shimazu daimyo, and Hori Masuko ( 1812-1901 ).
160 – 104 BC ) was a King of Numidia, born in Cirta ( modern-day Constantine ).
The philosophers Moses Maimonides ( a Jew born in Muslim Spain ) and Ibn Khaldun ( born in modern-day Tunisia ), the father of sociology and historiography, were also important philosophers, though the latter did not identify himself as a falsafa, but rather a kalam author.
Takahashi was born in Edo ( modern-day Tokyo ), while Japan was still under the Tokugawa shogunate.
He was born at Sompuis, near Vitry-le-François ( in modern-day Marne ), the son of Anthony Royer, a small businessman.

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