Tsutsumi is a living demonstration of how money and political power intersect in present day Japan.
Mr Khatami has talked of reforms repeatedly, but is yet to show any real signs of it in present day Iran.
The new Terrence Malick film is set fitfully in the present day, largely in the nineteen-fifties, and, somewhat surprisingly, a few billion years before that.
This adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel, set in the present day, follows an entrepreneurial French expatriate (Stanislas Merhar) in a Southeast Asian delta village whose ramshackle farm faces ruin.
By 191 BC, the Via Appia was complete, reaching as far as Brindisi in present-day Puglia.
The Maya originated around 3, 000 years ago in present-day Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Mexico.
Called Hoba, it is an iron boulder thought to have landed about 80, 000 years ago, in present-day Namibia.
Apparently the sixth-century scribes who wrote it were living in what was then Judea, somewhere in present-day Israel.
Benares, or Baranas, was a city of antiquity and mythology in present-day India.
In the present day, it hosts its own annual jazz festival every July.
Many of the things that might have made sense in that world, do not make sense in our present day world.
Set in present-day Los Angeles, Sturges carries on in the classic noir tradition showing the seamy underside of the city and its criminal tendencies.
If so, promising planets may have been sterilized by solar flares or frozen in the past, which wouldn't be reflected in present-day habitable-zone calculations.
In present-day Iraq, the answer is, not much, for where Mr Hussein stands out is in the scale and single-mindedness of his building campaign.
One was Vladimir Jabotinsky, whose ideas inspired both the Irgun Zvai Leumi resistance movement in wartime Palestine and the Likud party in present-day Israel.
In the present day, however, their history has been more chequered.
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In addition to the serenity and fresh air, the island is dotted with shops that sell distinctive Mon pottery, a pleasing ochre-coloured pottery that has its roots in present-day Myanmar.
In the Middle Ages, for example, city-states in present-day Italy or Spain traded from a position of strength with north European suppliers of textiles and north African sellers of gold.
Khan's paternal grandfather, Khan Faizullah Khan, was a contractor, and the British used him to build roads and the cantonment areas in the district of Dera Ismail Khan and in present-day Waziristan.
This was the period when the city of Angkor in present-day Cambodia went into rapid decline, a fact that some historians have blamed on invasions by the rival Siamese and Champa kingdoms.
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They regard the denial of Ali's alleged right to succeed the prophet on his death, his subsequent murder, and the martyrdom of his son Hussein at Karbala (in present-day Iraq) later as seminal events.
Newspapers are recounting harrowing tales of survivors of so-called death camps in North Borneo during World War II - while revealing the existence of what The Sun daily calls "hell holes" in present-day Malaysia.
But in present-day Ghana, then called the Gold Coast, there were over 30 more slave forts, built and maintained by almost all of the European trading powers of the day: the Swedes, Danes, French, British, Dutch and Portuguese.
Mr Talbott has also had the good luck to be able to track the same tension in the present day, as America after the cold war has oscillated between a multilateral and unilateral foreign policy under Presidents Clinton and Bush.
The Gallaghers would argue that is because Irish players - like Eoin Morgan in the present day - tend to be poached by England with the promise of test match cricket at the highest level... and the money and recognition that go with it.
The document for submission to the Memory of the World Register is the Deed of Endowment of the Rab' i-Rashidi, and details the justification for the complex, the management system, administration and the budget of the endowed properties, which included land in present-day Afghanistan, Asia Minor, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq and Syria.
"Those water masses play a very important role in the present-day status of the ice pack and changes in the delivery would have an influence and effect on ice distribution, " said Weingartner.
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She went out in the present-day lifeboat to lay a wreath, along with two of her sons.
Like Mr Kashua, Mr El-Youssef is interested in exploring present-day scenarios rather than the refugee camps' myths that the old Palestine will be reborn.
His comment about World War IV indicates that the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church continues to reconsider the matter of war in the present-day, post-Cold War world, and that it is placing the Cold War into a historical perspective.
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