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Today, the gin category is one of the most popular and widely distributed range of spirits, and is represented by products of various origins, styles, and flavor profiles that all revolve around juniper as a common ingredient.

Today, we would associate these entities with vampires, but in ancient times, the term vampire did not exist ; blood drinking and similar activities were attributed to demons or spirits who would eat flesh and drink blood ; even the Devil was considered synonymous with the vampire.

" Not a few years before, when he and Belushi were making an appearance on the Today show, he referred to them as " kindred spirits.

Today the home is owned by Winchester Investments LLC and it retains unique touches that reflect Mrs Winchester's beliefs and her reported preoccupation with warding off malevolent spirits.

Today, the profession of the cooper is synonymous with the wine and spirits industry where the cooper assembles casks and operates machinery that builds barrels.

Today, what little Baco Blanc is left in New Zealand is used primarily for distillations and spirits.

Today Tado is a centre of pilgrimage for Aja people from across the region, who visit the village each August to pray for their ancestral spirits.

Today, the spirits of Hononegah and Stephen Mack live on in Rockton and the surrounding communities.

Today whole grains are freshly ground every day and baked into bread.

Today the Nasser and Kassem governments are adamantly hostile to the West, are dependent for their military power on Soviet equipment and personnel ; ;

Today, that distinction has mostly disappeared and the terms " astronomer " and " astrophysicist " are interchangeable.

Today, abaci are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal.

Today, crops are grown there.

Today, Biblical Aramaic, Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects and the Aramaic language of the Talmud are written in the Hebrew alphabet.

Today, many TRS-mediated calls are made over the Internet by consumers who use broadband connections.

Today, antique books printed by the Aldine Press in Venice are referred to as Aldines.

Today they are the most common symbolic representation of numbers in the world.

Today, Methodism follows this ancient Alexandrian practice as bishops are elected from and by the order of the presbyterate: the Discipline of the Methodist Church, in ¶ 303, affirms that " ordination to this ministry is a gift from God to the Church.

Today, " minor tranquilizer " can refer to anxiolytic and / or hypnotic drugs such as the benzodiazepines and nonbenzodiazepines which have some antipsychotic properties and are recommended for concurrent use with antipsychotics, and are useful for insomnia or drug-induced psychosis.

Today, Aleut weavers continue to produce woven grass pieces of a remarkable cloth-like texture, works of modern art with roots in ancient tradition. Birch bark, puffin feathers, and baleen are also commonly used by the Aleuts in basketry.

The words, " Today I have begotten you ," are omitted from the canonical Gospel of Mark, however, and it is therefore generally believed to have less adoptionist tendencies than the Gospel of the Hebrews.

Today almost 90 % of all brass alloys are recycled.

Today known as the Chicago Cubs, they are the oldest team in American organized sports.

Today, the terms molecular biology and biochemistry are nearly interchangeable.

Today, direct engagements between aircraft are rare-the most modern fighter-interceptors carry much more extensive bombing payloads, and are used to bomb precision land targets, rather than to fight other aircraft.

Today, computer programs such as BLAST are used daily to search sequences from more than 260 000 organisms, containing over 190 billion nucleotides.

Today the terms " Order of Saint Benedict " and " Benedictine Order " are also used frequently to refer to the total of the independent Benedictine abbeys, thereby giving the wrong impression of a " generalate " or " motherhouse " with jurisdiction over dependent communities.

Today Benedictine monasticism is fundamentally different from other Western religious orders insofar as its individual communities are not part of a religious order with " Generalates " and " Superiors General ".

Today, nylon strings are commonly used in place of gut.

Asia Business Report and Sport Today are aired at the back of the first three hours of Newsday.

Today, Saints Cyril and Methodius are revered there as national saints and their name day ( 5 July ), " Sts Cyril and Methodius Day " is a national holiday in Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Today, Chan and Mook are revered as heroines because of their opposition to the Burmese invasions.

Today Zhang Qian is considered a national hero and revered for the key role he played in opening China to the world of commercial trade.

Today, Kolokotronis ranks among the most revered of the protagonists of the War of Independence.

Today, these films are revered more for their camp value than any ability to cause sexual arousal.

Today Uderolal is revered as Jhulelal, the patron saint of Sindhis and also considered to be as Pir and revered as Jinda Pir, as such, both Hindus and Muslims visit the site of his Samadhi.

Today, it is widely revered by critics as one of the greatest films of all time.

Today, it is arguably the most sought-after and revered soaker by enthusiasts and members of the online community.

Today, the ancestral homelands of the Apache have been reduced to those lands contained in the Mescalero Apache Reservation approximately 30 miles northeast of La Luz.

Today, the landscape of Confucian schools, temples, places of ancestral worship, and scholarship have been minimized, if not put to the side as historical artifacts worthy only of tourists, scholars, or neglected preservation.

Today, the greatest concentration of Finnish Americans is in Michigan Upper Peninsula, where they form 16 % of the population, and are the largest ancestral group in the peninsula's western counties.