After 40 years of wandering in the desert, Moses died within sight of the Promised Land.

Pope Urban III died shortly after, and was succeeded by Gregory VIII, who was more concerned with troubling reports from the Holy Land than with a power struggle with Barbarossa.

From " the top of Pisgah ," i. e., Mount Nebo, an area which belonged to Moab, Moses surveyed the Promised Land ( Deuteronomy 3: 27 ; 32: 49 ), and there he died ( 34: 1, 5 ).

In 1874, at age 24, Kitchener was assigned by the Palestine Exploration Fund to a mapping-survey of the Holy Land, replacing Charles Tyrwhitt-Drake, who had died of malaria.

The Wiradjuri language had effectively died out of everyday spoken use, but has recently been reclaimed from early European anthropologist's records and from words contributed by several Wiradjuri families, by elder Stan Grant, a member of the Wiradjuri Elder's Council, and John Rudder Ph. D., who has previously studied Australian Aboriginal languages in Arnhem Land.

Land in the Everglades was being sold for $ 15 an acre a month after Broward died.

Byrd died August 26, 1744 as the Land of Eden began to be surrounded by the settlement of Scotch-Irish whom Byrd had compared to the " Goths and Vandals.

The Loring Land and Improvement Company built a railroad station and a post office, but shortly thereafter General Dunn died, and the development stagnated.

: Land where my fathers died,

: Land where my fathers died,

* Lt John Irving of HMS Terror ( 1822-1848 or 49 ) who died in King William's Land as part of the Franklin Expedition searching for the North-West Passage and whose body was found some 30 years later and brougfht back to Edinburgh for burial ( re-interred 7. 11. 1881 ).

He grew up and studied in Girona ( hence his name " Girondi "), and died in the Land of Israel about 1270.

Her husband died soon after his return from the Holy Land.

* Records of practicing Pure Land Buddhists who have died have been known to leave śarīrā, or relics, after cremation.

Luria died at Safed, Ottoman Empire controlled Land of Israel, July 25, 1572 ( 5 Av 5332 ).

Although a relatively small Hossō sect exists in Japan to this day, the sect has survived long after it died out in Korea and China, though its influence has diminished as the center of Buddhist authority moved away from Nara, and with the rise of the Ekayana schools of Buddhism ( Tendai, Zen, Pure Land, etc .).

A mural depicting sacks of frankincense traded from the Land of Punt adorns the walls of the temple of ancient Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut, who died in circa 1458 BCE.

The path to the Jabberwock's Lair leads into the Land of Fire and Brimstone, a volcanic region of Wonderland and a reminder of the fire in which her family died.

Madame Emmy Land Wolff died in 1955 and Dr. Wolff retired from opera five years later and returned to Ruschlikon, Switzerland, where he died in 1961.

* May 7-Edwin H. Land ( died 1991 ), inventor and founder of Polaroid.

Furnival later died crusading in the Holy Land in 1348.

She wanted to set sail for Constantinople but fell sick and died in the Holy Land.

In William Hope Hodgson's novel The Night Land, the " Earth-Current ", a powerful telluric current, is the source of power for the Last Redoubt, the arcology home of man after the Sun has died.

Land was near, and on June 12, one hundred and fourteen days after leaving America, they actually saw, twenty miles away, the coast of Orissa.

Eleazar, pausing on the Hanover plain, found its great forests and remoteness good and with his own hands built the first College Hall, a log hut dedicated `` for the education & instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing & all parts of learning which shall appear necessary and expedient for civilizing & christianizing Children of Pagans as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences ; ;

Marty Land stood alone on a red-clay road as storm clouds gathered ominously in the sky again.

The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).

The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.

At some point, he was alleged to have accompanied Swein on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but proof is lacking.

He agreed with the Republic of Venice to undertake the delivery of his troops to the Holy Land, in exchange he renounced the supremacy over Zára ( Zadar ) on behalf of the Republic.

Although myths and speculation about a Terra Australis (" Southern Land ") date back to antiquity, the first confirmed sighting of the continent of Antarctica is commonly accepted to have occurred in 1820 by the Russian expedition of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on Vostok and Mirny.

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

The duo named themselves Gemini, and a second album with more music by Björn and Benny was released in April 1987, containing the big hit " Mio My Mio "; also to be found on the soundtrack to the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, for which Andersson co-produced the music.

In 1987, Andersson wrote music and co-produced the soundtrack with Anders Eljas for the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, based on Swedish author Astrid Lindgrens Mio, my Mio.

The rest are assigned in order to the candidates on the Land list put forward before the election.

( Chapter 1 is the first of three important moments in Joshua marked with major speeches and reflections by the main characters ; here first God and then Joshua make speeches about the goal of conquest of the Promised Land ; at chapter 12, Joshua looks back on the conquest ; and at chapter 23 Joshua gives a speech about what must be done if Israel is to live in peace in the land ).

* 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 some Latin commentaries, from the Greek threnoi = Hebrew qinoth ) now in common use, to denote the character of the book, in which the prophet mourns over the desolations brought on Jerusalem and the Holy Land by the Chaldeans.

* Ship Cone, a conical peak 1 mile ( 1. 6 km ) south of Townrow Peak on the Tilman Ridge in Allan Hills, Victoria Land

In April 2011, Chaosium and new developer Red Wasp Design announced a joint project to produce a mobile video game based on the Call of Cthulhu RPG entitled Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.

Land reclamation efforts by the Mamluks and Ottomans further contributed to expansion on the east bank of the river.

Instead, they believe that only Christ Jesus went to Heaven, and when he comes back to the earth the true believers will live in the Land of Israel which will be the Kingdom of God on Earth.

Included in that collection were “ Judgment Night ” ( first published in August and September, 1943 ), the lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss ; “ The Code ” ( July, 1945 ), an homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread ; “ Promised Land ” ( February, 1950 ) and “ Heir Apparent ” ( July, 1950 ) both documenting the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system ; and “ Paradise Street ” ( September, 1950 ), a futuristic take on the Old West conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers.

Several churches and monasteries in Europe, for instance, in Germany and Russia, have been modeled on the Church of the Resurrection, some even reproducing other holy places for the benefit of pilgrims who could not travel to the Holy Land.

Egyptian soldiers from Queen Hatshepsut's Year 9 expedition to the Land of Punt, as depicted on her temple at Deir el-Bahri.

The " classic " Datsun logo, based on the Flag of Japan and Japan's Names of Japan | nickname as the " Land of the Rising Sun ".