Pope Celestine III proclaimed a crusade against the Baltic heathens in 1195, which was reiterated by Pope Innocent III and a crusading expedition led by Meinhard's successor, Bishop Berthold of Hanover, landed in Livonia ( part of present-day Latvia, surrounding the Gulf of Riga ) in 1198.

In 257, when Cao Wei was dealing with the rebellion of Zhuge Dan ( who had anticipated an usurpation by Sima Shi's brother and successor Sima Zhao and wanted to resist it ), Jiang Wei again attacked, this time advancing all the way to Mangshui ( 芒水 ; in present-day Xi ' an, Shaanxi ), but could not induce Wei's forces, commanded by Deng Ai and Sima Wang, to engage him in battle.

* Granada PLC, a former United Kingdom media and catering conglomerate, or its present-day successor, ITV plc:

* Brief biography from MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP Lawyers-This firm is the present-day successor of the law firm that MacPherson founded in 1920 in Regina

Its present-day successor universities are the University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier 2 University and Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III.

From the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, a rivalry had developed between the successor Later Liang Dynasty, formed by Zhu Wen and the State of Jin by Li Keyong in present-day Shanxi.

Its present-day successor is now Black & Veatch.

The first Araucanian king's present-day successor, Prince Philippe, lives in France and has renounced his predecessor's claims to the Kingdom, but he has kept alive the memory of Orélie-Antoine, and lent continued support to the on-going struggle for Mapuche self-determination.

It has never been revived, and no present-day party claims to be its successor.

Another reason for this broadening of the term is the fact that many of the leading Israeli Haredi yeshivas ( outside the Hasidic camp ) are successor bodies to the famous yeshivot of Lithuania, though their present-day members may or may not be descended from Lithuanian Jewry.

* Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry, present-day successor to the Church of Ireland archdiocese

Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower discarded the Point Four name in favor of simply referring to it as a technical assistance program, and reorganized the TCA into the Foreign Operations Administration ( its successor agencies include the International Cooperation Administration and the present-day Agency for International Development ).

During the rule of his successor, Govindachandra, from 1114 – 1154, the state of Gahadvala reached the pinnacle of its power, occupying much of present-day Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

In 1798, the company sent him to Red Deer Lake ( in present-day Alberta ) to establish a trading post.

Under Johan Björnsson Printz, governor from 1643 to 1653, the company expanded along the river from Fort Christina, establishing Fort Nya Elfsborg on the east bank of the Delaware near present-day Salem, New Jersey and Fort Nya Gothenborg on Tinicum Island ( to the immediate southwest of today's Philadelphia ), where he also built his manor house, The Printzhof.

The company still manufactures spacesuits to this day — the present-day Space Shuttle " soft " suit components ( the arms and legs of the suit ).

The Four Seasons Hotel was built on the location of present-day Lincoln Memorial University in 1892 by an English land company, the American Association Limited.

The land company gathered 1, 200 Cherokee in council at Sycamore Shoals ( located at present-day Elizabethton, Tennessee ) to hear their proposal for purchase.

Its headquarters were at the Sulphur Mines, a company town just west of present-day Sulphur.

The 825 foot Tuckerton Wireless Tower () was built in 1912 by the German " Hochfrequenzmaschin Aktiengesellschaft Fuer Drahtlose Telegraphie " company ( The High Frequency Machine Corporation for Wireless Telegraphy, often referred to as HOMAG ) when the present-day Mystic Island was called Hickory Island.

The Tuckerton Wireless Tower () was built in 1912 by the German " Hochfrequenzmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft für drahtlose Telegraphie " company ( The High Frequency Machine Corporation for Wireless Telegraphy, often referred to as HOMAG ) when the present-day Mystic Island was called Hickory Island.

In December 1847, a company of the Texas Rangers Division commanded by Henry E. McCulloch established a station at the site of present-day Burnet for the protection of frontier settlers from Indian raids.

From a post at present-day Cumberland, Maryland, the company began to construct an wagon road to the Monongahela River employing a Delaware Indian Chief named Nemacolin and a party of settlers headed by Capt.

Rupert's first company secretary was Sir James Hayes and Radisson named the Hayes River, in present-day Manitoba, in his honour.

The present-day airstrip of the Del Monte company, built for their light aircraft, is about two miles east of the wartime airfield.

Company operations were centered at Fort Nisqually, near present-day Olympia, Washington, where the company developed dairy, livestock and produce farms.

After the construction of Fort de Chartres, the company directed a series of prospecting expeditions to an area 30 miles west of the Mississippi River in present-day Madison, St. Francois, and Washington counties.

In 1983, Cinemax's parent company Time-Life Inc. ( which merged with Warner Communications in 1989 to form the present-day Time Warner ), had filed a federal trademark infringement lawsuit against then-independent station KOKI ( channel 23, now a Fox affiliate ) in Tulsa, Oklahoma and its owners Tulsa 23, Ltd. over the use of the slogan " We Are Your Movie Star " ( which was Cinemax's slogan at that time ).

Pike's company made several errors and ended up in Spanish territory in southern present-day Colorado, where the Americans built a fort to survive the winter.

Leon's original store was staffed primarily by Ablan's children, and he gained a reputation in Welland for honesty and fairness, an image the company aims to preserve with its present-day slogan, " It's All About Trust ".

The company built a water distribution system of the intake pipe located 600 feet offshore, almost 4 miles of iron pipe along present-day Geary Boulevard, a water pump, and the reservoir tank located on Laurel Heights.

The first mine in which the company became invested was the Starr-Grove silver mine, just south of present-day Battle Mountain, Nevada.

The present-day company was formed when Firstar bought U. S. Bancorp, a deal which closed on February 27, 2001.

In 1811, the company established a trading post at present-day Astoria, Oregon.

; Microsofts: Not to be confused with the present-day software company, in Neuromancer a " microsoft " is a chip used in conjunction with a cybernetic wetware implant located behind the ear.

In 1997, Max Media Properties ( a company partially related to the present-day Max Media ) bought the station, changed its calls to the current WMMP, and switched its affiliation to UPN.

The railway opened up the district and led to the formation of an iron company which began building a works on Maesteg Uchaf Farm, near the site of the present-day town centre, in 1826.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

Eichmann himself is a model of how the myth of the enemy-Jew can be used to transform the ordinary man of present-day society into a menace to all his neighbors.

* 378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey.

The Cinque Ports did indeed later founder off the coast of what is present-day Colombia.

Church planting is a key role of these present-day apostles.

Abra Kadabra is the name of a DC Comics villain, who originally uses futuristic technology to create effects that appear magic to present-day people, and later gains actual magic powers.

From the 8th century to the 9th century, many inhabitants of what is present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and areas of northern India were converted to Sunni Islam.

It is surmised from the writings of Al Biruni that some Pashtuns living in Pakhtunkhwa ( present-day western Pakistan ) had not been completely converted.

During the 8th through the 9th centuries, many inhabitants of what is present-day Afghanistan and western Pakistan were converted to Sunni Islam.

Çatalhöyük is located overlooking wheat fields in the Konya Plain, southeast of the present-day city of Konya ( ancient Iconium ) in Turkey, approximately 140 km ( 87 mi ) from the twin-coned volcano of Mount Hasan.

In 1540, Spain established the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which extended from southern Mexico to Costa Rica, and thus encompassed most of what is currently known as Central America, with the exception of British Honduras ( present-day Belize ).

Charlton Athletic were formed on 9 June 1905 by a group of 15-to 17-year-old boys in an area of Charlton which is no longer residential, near to the present-day site of the Thames Barrier.

In the kiva of both Ancient Pueblo Peoples | ancient and present-day Pueblo people s, the sipapu is a small round hole in the floor that represents the portal through which the ancestors Hopi mythology # Four Worlds | first emerged ( the larger hole is a fire pit, here in a ruin from the Mesa Verde National Park )

The standard currency is the woolong, which is roughly equivalent to the present-day Japanese yen.

Although the present-day, loose use of the term " cyberspace " no longer implies or suggests immersion in a virtual reality, current technology allows the integration of a number of capabilities ( sensors, signals, connections, transmissions, processors, and controllers ) sufficient to generate a virtual interactive experience that is accessible regardless of a geographic location.

The Mi ' kmaq Nation is also assumed to have crossed the present-day Cabot Strait at around this time to settle on the south coast of Newfoundland but were in a minority position compared to the Beothuk Nation.

There is speculation that Viking explorers discovered and settled in the Vinland region around 1000 AD, which is when the L ' Anse aux Meadows settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador has been dated, and it is possible that further exploration was made into the present-day Maritimes and northeastern United States.

Acadians eventually built small settlements throughout what is today mainland Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, as well as Île-Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ), Île-Royale ( Cape Breton Island ), and other shorelines of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in present-day Newfoundland and Labrador, and Quebec.

In the waters of Deception Pass, just east of the present-day Deception Pass Bridge, is a small island known as Ben Ure Island.

Dedham is sometimes called the " mother of towns " because 14 present-day communities were included within its original broad borders.