The phrase 'where present day' is grammatically correct and usable in written English. It can be used as a clause to show the location or timeline of a specific event or circumstance. For example: - "The ancient ruins serve as a reminder of where present day civilization began." - "The town lies in a valley where present day buildings stand tall against the mountain backdrop." - "I walked the same path where present day travelers trek to reach the summit."
Most of the places listed here were holy in pre-Christian times and remain places where "present-day commercial traffic has not robbed them of their spiritual significance".
The area of the canon most vulnerable to such talk is Wagner, where present-day Brünnhildes and Wotans must contend with towering documents from the golden age of recording.
There are certain areas of study where present-day pragmatics can learn from history.
In the second strategy, we take advantage of the fact that sites where present-day humans carry a high frequency of a derived allele (i.e., not seen in chimpanzee) while Neandertals carry a high frequency of the ancestral allele (i.e., matching the chimpanzee) provide information about the extent of contamination.
We devised an approach to detect positive selection in early modern humans that takes advantage of this fact by looking for genomic regions where present-day humans share a common ancestor subsequent to their divergence from Neandertals, and Neandertals therefore lack derived alleles found in present-day humans (except in rare cases of parallel substitutions) (Fig. 4A).
Now that Pääbo and his colleagues have high-quality copies of Neandertal and Denisovan DNA, they also are compiling a genome-wide catalog of DNA that is unique to Homo sapiens sites where present-day people differ from Neandertals and Denisovans.
So when two White men asked me was I afraid to walk through a Confederate Flag Rally to visit the spot where present-day, history maker -- Bree Newsome -- snatched down a symbol of racism and hate... my answer was "no".
Furnas Volcano is located in the eastern part of the island, where present-day volcanic activity is marked by several hydrothermal manifestations consisting of active fumarolic fields, thermal and cold CO2-rich springs, and soil diffuse degassing areas [ 11, 13].
Braving the constant threat of kidnapping, he ingratiated himself with pirate bosses and their crews and made a risky trip through the desert to Eyl, the remote enclave where present-day Somali piracy was born.
