Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.

Later he established the first diocese in Germany north of the old Roman Limes at the Frankish fortified settlement of Büraburg, on a prominent hill facing the town across the Eder River.

Buller's subordinate, Major General Charles Warren, successfully crossed the river, but was then faced with a fresh defensive position centred on a prominent hill known as Spion Kop.

** Harrison Knob, a prominent hill and important archaeological site adjacent to the mouth of the Harrison River

The present city of Árgos lies about 4 miles ( 6. 5 km ) from the gulf below Kástro hill ( ancient Lárissa ), a site probably occupied since the Early Bronze Age and very prominent in Mycenaean times ( c. 1300 – 1200 BCE ).

The highest point of the county is a prominent hill in Roxboro, where the county seat has located its water reservoir tank.

In 1833 the railroad cut was begun, to carry the New York and Harlem Rail Road through Murray Hill ; the route under the most prominent obstacle in its right-of-way was opened 1 May 1834 ; then the locomotives, which had met the horse-cars that ran through the city's streets at the station at 27th Street, could pass the reduced hill ; by an act of 1850 the city pemitted to roof over the cut for the passage of steam locomotives.

It was so named for the prominent limestone rimrocks forming the edges of the mesas visible from the hill top ranch.

The CDP gets its name from the neighborhood of Casa de Oro, which straddles the line between Spring Valley and unincorporated El Cajon, and Mount Helix, a prominent hill in La Mesa.

Church Hill, or Churchill as it was later shortened by Gallatin County Road Department, is located a few miles away from Amsterdam on a locally prominent hill.

* The 122-room Palace Hotel, built in 1868, is a prominent feature of the Buxton skyline, situated on the hill above the railway station.

It crossed the river to a tower on Buck Knob ( a prominent hill just south of the city ) to supply the new factory.

Garrison Hill, elevation approximately, is a prominent hill rising directly above the center city, with a park and lookout tower on top.

* Steam Sawmill Hill – A prominent hill by the north town line.

Magnolia Hill is on a prominent hill.

Bluefield, Virginia's most prominent residents are Bill Dudley, an NFL Hall of Famer ; New York Giants RB Ahmad Bradshaw ; and the widow of actor Lorne Greene, who lives in a mansion atop a hill overlooking the town's most historic home, the Sanders house.

Various interpretations of this word exist, including: " between two hills ", " on the hill ", " into the hills ", and possibly signifying a prominent hill or place thereon.

Reprinted in an appendix to Paglia's Vamps and Tramps ( 1994 ), in one sketch Callahan depicted prominent feminists Gloria Steinem, Susan Faludi and Naomi Wolf hiding behind a small hill, seemingly terrified of Sexual Personae and poking the book with stick.

Dolwyddelan Castle commands the valley from a prominent hill.

The location featured a prominent hill ( now known as Burial Hill ) ideal for a defensive fort.

* Bald Mountain – A prominent hill northeast of Angelica village.

The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place Names ( 2004 ) gives the translation " Royal Bell, the bell-shaped hill " and says that it is derived from the Old English cyne + belle, probably used as a place-name, and that the reference is to the prominent Pulpit Hill crowned with its hillfort, suggesting that ' royal ' referred to Great Kimble for distinction from Little Kimble.

Ivinghoe Beacon is a prominent hill and landmark in the Chiltern Hills, standing 233 m ( 757 ft ) above sea level.

The nearby Ivinghoe Beacon is a more prominent hill, although it only stands 249 m ( 817 ft ) above sea level.

One prominent style of mask is called the Black Forest Style, originating from the Black Forest Region.

Frederick Warne & Co. had previously rejected the tale but, eager to compete in the booming small format children's book market, reconsidered and accepted the " bunny book " ( as the firm called it ) following the recommendation of their prominent children's book artist L. Leslie Brooke.

Harvard University turned down an invitation to join this group because they preferred to play a rougher version of football called " the Boston Game " in which the kicking of a round ball was the most prominent feature though a player could run with the ball, pass it, or dribble it ( known as “ babying ”).

Muhtar Cem Karaca ( April 5, 1945-February 8, 2004 ), also called Cem Baba ( Daddy Cem or Father Cem ), was a prominent Turkish rock musician and one of the most important figures in the Anatolian rock movement.

Before the RISC philosophy became prominent, many computer architects tried to bridge the so called semantic gap, i. e. to design instruction sets that directly supported high-level programming constructs such as procedure calls, loop control, and complex addressing modes, allowing data structure and array accesses to be combined into single instructions.

There are three prominent hypotheses on nonbaryonic dark matter, called Hot Dark Matter ( HDM ), Warm Dark Matter ( WDM ), and Cold Dark Matter ( CDM ); some combination of these is also possible.

Jonathan Kozol, a former public school teacher and prominent public school reform thinker has called vouchers the " single worst, most dangerous idea to have entered education discourse in my adult life.

In 1834, while writing what he called the " principles of salvation ", prominent early Mormon co-founder Oliver Cowdery stated that:

One prominent such effort was the collection by Francis James Child in the late 19th century of the texts of over three hundred ballads in the English and Scots traditions ( called the Child Ballads ) most of which predated the sixteenth century.

Until recently, fur seals were all grouped under a single subfamily of Pinnipedia, called Arctocephalinae, to contrast them with Otariinae – the sea lions – based on the most prominent common feature, namely the coat of dense underfur intermixed with guard hairs.

Both sexes have prominent horn-like structures called ossicones, which are formed from ossified cartilage, covered in skin and fused to the skull at the parietal bones.

Through the efforts of a group called Société d ' Amis des Noirs, of which Raimond and Ogé were prominent leaders, in March 1790 the National Assembly granted full civic rights to the gens de couleur.

Menachen Begin was called a terrorist and a fascist by Albert Einstein and 27 other prominent Jewish intellectuals in a letter to the New York Times which was published on December 4, 1948.

The 17-string bass koto, called jūshichi-gen in Japanese, has become more prominent over the years since its development by Michio Miyagi.

Three prominent proto-Mongol groups split from the Xianbei, as recorded by the Chinese histories: the Nirun ( claimed by some to be the Avars ), the Khitan and the Shiwei ( a sub-tribe called the " Shiwei Menggu " is held to be the origin of the Genghisid Mongols ).

Among the prominent figures who have called for the abolition of nuclear weapons are " the philosopher Bertrand Russell, the entertainer Steve Allen, CNN ’ s Ted Turner, former Senator Claiborne Pell, Notre Dame president Theodore Hesburg, South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama ".

They are informally called birdcage pianos because of their prominent damper mechanism.

The most prominent of them were Stefan Ramułt, and Alfred Majewicz, who overtly called Kashubian a language in the 1980s.

He called the Hampton Court Conference in 1604, and heard the views of four prominent Puritan leaders including Chaderton there, but largely sided with his bishops.

However, this proper name became more prominent in the later history, and the country typically was called by its inhabitants " Русская Земля " ( russkaya zemlya ) which could be translated as " Russian Land " or " Land of Rus '".

According to one hypothesis, an Italian architect called Petrok Maly may have been an author of the Ascension Church in Kolomenskoye, one of the earliest and most prominent tented roof churches.

Soon after the liberation of this prominent political hostage, the Vice President of Colombia Francisco Santos Calderón called Latin America's biggest guerrilla group a " paper tiger " with little control of the nation's territory, adding that " they have really been diminished to the point where we can say they are a minimal threat to Colombian security ", and that " After six years of going after them, reducing their income and promoting reinsertion of most of their members, they look like a paper tiger.

" Harry Turtledove is one of the most prominent authors in the subgenre and is sometimes called the " master of alternate history ".

They typically have prominent oral cilia in the form of a series of polykinetids, called the adoral zone of membranelles, beginning anterior to the oral cavity and running down to the left side of the mouth.