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It took the guns of the modern world to finally bring them down.
No heroic triumph here, no brave individual standing up against impersonal institutions of a modern world, inspiring others to fight, or resourcefully outwitting and outgunning the massive army of the evil empire.
Although modern English speakers may think Old English sounds like a different language, if you look and listen closely, you'll find many words that are recognizable.
Scientists in the modern era would spend a couple of hundred years figuring out the answer to this question.
Like all things in nature, feathers evolved over millions of years into their modern form.
But telescope ahead to the age of modern animal husbandry, and you'll see four: turkeys, ducks, chicken and geese.
Gyotaku is the ancient art of printing fish that originated in Japan as a way to record trophy catches prior to the modern day camera.
And if you move in time from 20,000 years ago to the modern day, you see that temperature increased.
And then if we analyze corals closer to the modern day, or indeed if we go down there today anyway and measure the chemistry of the corals, we see that we move to a position where carbon can exchange in and out.
Modern scientists believe that sleep paralysis is caused by an abnormal overlap of the REM, rapid eye movement, and waking stages of sleep.
If you think modern cities are overcrowded, you may be surprised to learn that some cities in 2000 B.C. had population densities nearly twice as high as that of Shanghai or Calcutta.
The Roman Empire was able to develop infrastructure to overcome these limitations, but other than that, modern cities as we know them, didn't really get their start until the Industrial Revolution, when new technology deployed on a mass scale allowed cities to expand and integrate further, establishing police, fire, and sanitation departments, as well as road networks, and later electricity distribution.
But the modern conlangs go further.
After 1868, others such as Vincent van Gogh and composer Claude Debussy began to incorporate Kabuki influences in their work, while Kabuki itself underwent much change and experimentation to adapt to the new modern era.
The challenges associated with providing water to a modern city are not restricted to the American Southwest.
Now, if you told me 20 years ago that a modern city could exist without a supply of imported water, I probably would have dismissed you as an unrealistic and uninformed dreamer.
I know, I've been studying recycled water using every measurement technique known to modern science for the past 15 years.
And the place where we need to think about water conservation is outdoors because in California and other modern American cities, about half of our water use happens outdoors.
But the first modern tattooing machine was modeled after Thomas Edison's engraving machine and ran on electricity.
All modern crops, therefore, have these genes in their roots and leaves, they just never switch them on.
You can't judge a guy in the 15th century by modern standards.
This superposition of states also leads to modern technology.
And in fact, the modern salamander is very close to the first terrestrial vertebrate, so it's almost a living fossil, which gives us access to our ancestor, the ancestor to all terrestrial tetrapods.
While modern English shares many similar words with Latin-derived romance languages, like French and Spanish, most of those words were not originally part of it.
It may be hard to see the roots of modern English underneath all the words borrowed from French, Latin, Old Norse and other languages.
We can even use the same process to go back one step further, and trace the origins of Proto-Germanic to a language called Proto-Indo-European, spoken about 6000 years ago on the Pontic steppe in modern day Ukraine and Russia.
Indeed, today we can manufacture gold on Earth thanks to modern inventions that those medieval alchemists missed by a few centuries.
We already have many programs that claim to do just that, taking a word, sentence, or entire book in one language and translating it into almost any other, whether it's modern English or Ancient Sanskrit.
Shrink all that down so that it fits in the palm of your hand, and you'd have something equivalent to a modern hard drive, an object that can likely hold more information than your local library.
The areal density of a modern hard drive is about 600 gigabits per square inch, 300 million times greater than that of IBM's first hard drive from 1957.
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