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31. For its part, Pan Am must have viewed the girdle as a kind of modern-day chastity belt.
32. You'd have thought that re-creating it on stage would have the same effect on a modern-day director.
33. Its as much a part of being a modern-day star as appearing on chat shows or signing autographs.
34. Modern-day racers are under the public spotlight and any slip-up can land them in serious trouble.
35. The story is designed to be a modern-day film noir.
36. So-called "evidence-based medicine" has become modern-day quackery.
37. Bambiraptor had a keen sniffer similar to that of a modern-day turkey vulture.
38. The decision to rebury the site, near the modern-day city of Bergama, was made in August by a local preservation board, and it has been hotly protested by activists and archaeologists.
39. But the plan backfired, with modern-day historians claiming that Versailles was a key factor in the lead-up to World War II.
40. Pocket billiards such as modern-day pool and snooker were around, but they were considered to be the ill-bred cousins of carom billiards, which used a pocketless table.
41. Modern-day Rome is the capital of Italy once again and one of the most visited places in the world.
42. Modern-day squat evangelists make money off the claim that a "more natural" posture wards off all sorts of health problems, from Crohn's disease to colon cancer.
42. Wish you will loveand make progress everyday!
43. A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.
44. An ancient town of Asia Minor on the Asiatic coast of the Hellespont in modern-day Turkey. It was the scene of the legendary tale of Hero and Leander.
45. First, the chilly "Older Dryas" of 14, 700 to 13, 400 years ago transformed most of Europe from forest to tundra, like modern-day Siberia.
46. Some 2600 years ago Aristotle wrote a book on palmistry for Alexander the Great, and there is nothing in that book that a modern-day palmist would dispute.
47. For instance, modern-day ice cracks off Antarctica are "chockablock" with single-celled life-forms, he said.
48. The creature weighed in at an estimated 120 to 130 pounds, or roughly twice as heavy as the modern-day emperor penguin.
49. The latest entry in the fairy-tale sweepstakes is Grimm, a vaguely creepy new NBC series that brings supernatural creatures to life in modern-day Oregon.
50. In this view, it is held both religiously and scientifically correct to reinterpret ancient religious texts in line with modern-day scientific findings about evolution.
51. A city of ancient Latium southeast of modern-day Rome, Italy. Pliny the Younger, Cicero, and the emperors Nero and Titus were among the prominent Romans who built villas here.
52. The ancient flowering plant, Archaefructus liaoningensis, resembles a modern-day buttercup, with slender stems and three-lobed leaves.
53. Using the skull of a modern-day lion for comparison, a team of scientists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) found the sabertooth had a relatively weak bite.
54. It could, like the modern-day albatross, glide by navigating through thermals but was also fully capable of powered flight.
55. At that time most of modern-day British Columbia was still icebound, and a white coat may have offered camouflage.
56. The fourth attraction is the unique symbol of this World Expo–modern-day China.
57. The empire with the accession of Manco Capac to emperor of a tribe in the Cuzco area of modern-day Peru around 1200.
58. The State Department honors the efforts of individuals to end trafficking in its report section called "Heroes Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery."
59. A man walks his camel past the Step Pyramid of Sakkara, Egypt. The ancient structure stands close to modern-day Cairo.
60. A region of southeast Europe on the Balkan Peninsula including parts of modern-day Greece, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia .
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