The Crusades, first preached in 1095, were military attempts, by western European Christians, to regain control of the Middle Eastern Holy Land from the Muslims, and succeeded long enough to establish Christian states in the Near East.

Stiebing ( 1994 ) has " Land of the Lords of Brightness " ( William Stiebing, Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture ).

The Israelites (, Standard: ; Tiberian: ; ISO 259-3: ) were a Semitic Hebrew-speaking people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited part of the Land of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods ( 15th to 6th centuries BCE ), later evolving into Jews and Samaritans of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, inhabiting the territories of Judea and Galilee, and Samaria respectively, though a Jewish diaspora had already developed outside of Judea and Galilee.

“ The Byzantine Period: An Empire ’ s New Holy Land .” Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol.

In 1882, the fields known as Far and Near Townsend Close went on to be bought by Kirby Muxloe Land Society.

The Crusades, which were first preached in 1095, were an attempt by western Christians to regain control of the Holy Land from the Muslims, and succeeded long enough to establish some Christian states in the Near East.

Near the end of the Heian period a new garden architecture style appeared, created by the followers of Pure Land Buddhism.

From 1968 to 1969 he was GOC, Near East Land Forces and, from 1969 to 1972, president of the Regular Commissions Board.

From 1909 to 1911 the painter traveled with Robert Hitchens to create similar illustrations for his popular books on Egypt, the Holy Land, and the Near East.

From there he travelled for two years through the Balkans, the Near East, and the Holy Land, in the company of his friend Renaud of Roye and later with Philip of Artois, Count of Eu.

Treasures from neighboring cultures that have had a decisive impact on the Land of Israel – such as Egypt, the Near East, Greece and Italy, and the Islamic world – are on view in adjacent and connecting galleries.

Near the beginning of the No Man's Land story arc, a junior officer creates an improvised Bat-Signal out of spare parts.

Near the dam site, there is also a campground maintained by the Bureau of Land Management that showcases a number of prehistoric petroglyphs, indicating human involvement in the region long predating Western influence.

Novelist and historian Eleanor Dark ( 1901 – 1985 ), best known for her historical novel A Timeless Land, lived in Katoomba with her husband Dr. Eric Dark from 1923 until her death.

There was also a separate continent south and east of Middle-earth called the Dark Land.

Each region serves as a game world that is divided into stage levels, and an eighth region is included as the final world, Dark Land.

Bowser also has his very own castle in the Dark Land.

Todd McFarlane is also the cartoonist responsible for the cover art of the albums Ten Thousand Fists, released in September 2005 and Indestructible, released June 2008 by metal band Disturbed, and the art in their single " Land of Confusion ", as well as that of metal band Iced Earth's 1996 Spawn-based concept album The Dark Saga and Korn's third studio album Follow the Leader, which was released in 1998.

A Baby Boomer's Adventures in the Land of Dark Shadows!

Indeed, in the Elvish Sindarin language, Mor-Dor means Dark ( or Black ) Land, and is sometimes even referred to within the novel as " The Black Country ".

The Dark Forest opened in March 2010 ; replacing Ug Land which opened in 1999.

* Eleanor Dark, The Timeless Land ( 1941 novel )

Later, they began the Dark Crusade to continue taking over the Land and convert all to the worship of the Dark Tezla.

In Super Mario Bros. 3, not only was Bowser's Castle the final destination once again, but an entire world was built around it, called " Dark Land ".

* Caliber Comics ' Oz comic book series, followed by Arrow Comics ' Dark Oz and The Land of Oz featured the Wizard, affectionately known as " Oscar ," particularly to Ozma, as a tall, bald, mustachioed man, brooding, powerful, and not at all bumbling.

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Two of them have recently been reprinted by Dark Horse Comics in a single trade paperback collection ( Tarzan in The Land That Time Forgot and The Pool of Time ) ( ISBN 1-56971-151-8 ).

* " The Dark Land " ( January 1936 )

** " The Dark Land "

When the Dark Elves were driven from the Elven homeland of Ulthuan following a cataclysmic civil war, they fled northwards on giant floating citadels of rock to the dark and forbidding lands of Naggaroth, " the Land of Chill ".

Normally inhabited by happy chicken-people, Morning Land is shrouded in darkness and under the rule of the sinister Dark Raven.

Billy defeats Dark Raven, which brings light and morning back to Morning Land.

* Land of Dark, Land of Light ( 1993 ) ( with Karen Pandell );

Dark, Eleanor, 1947, The Timeless Land, also uses early colonial documents as source, including a recount of unsuccessful search for Pemulwuy by Arthur Philip's officers.

The Lincoln Land Company purchased land from Charles Caldwell, J. C. Deweese, Albert Cornish, and C. Shepherd.

* Land Use in Cornish, N. H., a 2006 documentary presentation by James M. Patterson of the Valley News

The Cornish anthem that has been used by Gorseth Kernow for the last 75 plus years is " Bro Goth Agan Tasow " (" The Land of My Fathers ", or, literally, " Old Country of our Fathers ") with a similar tune to the Welsh national anthem (" Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau ") and the Breton national anthem (" Bro Gozh ma Zadoù ").

Live performances usually include the Breton national anthem Bro Gozh Ma Zadou (" The Land of My Fathers ") which is also the Welsh National Anthem and the Cornish National Anthem ( Bro Goth Agan Tasow ).

* G. H. Doble ( 1935 ) " Saint Meriadoc, Patron of Camborne " ( Cornish Saints Series ; n ° 34 ) in: The Saints of Cornwall ; Part 1: Saints of the Land ’ s End District, Truro ( 1960 ), reissued by Llanerch, Felinfach, 1997.

* 1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.

* Joshua led the Israelites out of the wilderness into the Promised Land, crossing the Jordan River as if on dry ground ( 3: 16 ), just as Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt through the Red Sea, which they crossed as if on dry land ( Ex.

In the same way, the Persian Gulf was sometimes called " the Sea of Bit Yakin, instead of " the Sea of the Land of Chaldea.

Later with the fall of the Kingdom, the area was calledMedri Bahri (" Land of the Sea ") until the Italians came to the area in the late 19th century.

* The connection between the lack of an Islamic spirit and the lack of victory was underscored by the disastrous defeat of Arab nationalist-led armies fighting under the slogan " Land, Sea and Air " in the 1967 Six Day War, compared to the ( perceived ) near-victory of the Yom Kippur War six years later.

There are 5 different types of nymphs, Celestial Nymphs, Sea Nymphs, Land Nymphs, Wood Nymphs and Underworld Nymphs.

In order to control the costs of the marine transport in Puerto Rico, the marine company Sea Land was bought to form Navieras of Puerto Rico in 1974.

But Honorius III really had too large a task ; besides the liberation of the Holy Land, he felt bound to forward the repression of Cathar heresy in the south of France, the war for the faith in the Spanish peninsula, the planting of Christianity in the lands along the Baltic Sea, and the maintenance of the impossible Latin empire in Constantinople.

* Land and Sea ( 1865 ).

From north to south, the country ranges from the northern tip of the Russian Arctic islands at Franz Josef Land to the southern tip of the Republic of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea, spanning about of extremely varied, often inhospitable terrain.

* Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides ( 1923 )

* Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides ( 1923 )

Together with other countries lies on Red Sea, Sudan is considered the most likely location of the land known to the ancient Egyptians as Punt ( or " Ta Netjeru ", meaning " God's Land "), whose first mention dates to the 25th century BC.

* Irwin Allen, creator of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, and Land of the Giants

A geography treatise by Dicuil reports a conversation with an English monk, Fidelis, who had sailed on the canal from the Nile to the Red Sea during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the first half of the 8th century

" Estragon tells him about the coloured maps of the Holy Land and that he planned to honeymoon by the Dead Sea ; it is his short-term memory that is poorest and points to the fact that he may, in fact, be suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

* Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross additionally discovers the Ross Sea, Victoria Land and Mount Terror.

" Again, Kipling uses the word in A Counting-Out Song ( Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides, 1923 ), the rhyme reads: " Eenie Meenie Mainee, Mo!

The United States Navy's Sea, Air, and Land Teams, commonly known as the US Navy SEALs, are the U. S. Navy's principal special operations force and a part of the Naval Special Warfare Command ( NSWC ) and SOCOM.

It is a rather deep shelf sea ( average depth and maximum depth ), bordered by the shelf edge towards the Norwegian Sea in the west, the islands of Svalbard ( Norway ) in the northwest, and the islands of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya ( Arkhangelsk Oblast ) in the northeast and east.

* Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea ; Conflict and Adaptation in Early Colonial Timor, 1600-1800-KITLV Press 2012.

Nevertheless, the Egyptian and Hebrew uses of the term are not identical: the Egyptian texts also identify the coastal city of Qadesh in north west Syria near Turkey as part of the " Land of Canaan ", so that the Egyptian usage seems to refer to the entire levantine coast of the Mediterranean Sea, making it a synonym of another Egyptian term for this coastland, Retenu.

The Bering Strait, the Bering Sea, Bering Island, Bering Glacier and the Bering Land Bridge have since all been ( posthumously ) named in honour of the explorer.

Consequently, Bering's name has since been used for the Bering Strait ( named by Captain James Cook despite knowledge of Dezhnev's earlier expedition ), the Bering Sea, Bering Island, Bering Glacier and the Bering Land Bridge.