However, the collapse of the Near Eastern trading system pointed to a flaw: in an era where there was no place that was safe to store value, the value of a circulating medium could only be as sound as the forces that defended that store.

Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

Near the end of her time as governor general, Adrienne Clarkson stated: " My constitutional role has lain in what are called ' reserve powers ': making sure that there is a prime minister and a government in place, and exercising the right ' to encourage, to advise, and to warn '[...] Without really revealing any secrets, I can tell you that I have done all three.

* Near instant point-to-point teleportation is possible with transfer booths ( on Earth ) and stepping disks ( on the Puppeteer homeworld ); on Earth, people's sense of place and global position has been lost due to instantaneous travel ; cities and cultures have blended together.

: Near this spot stood the Cross erected by King Edward the I to mark the place in Stony Stratford where the body of Queen Eleanor rested on its way from Harby in Nottinghamshire to Westminster Abbey in 1290

The 2nd century writer Lucian gave an account of the Greek Deucalion in De Dea Syria that seems to refer more to the Near Eastern flood legends: in his version, Deucalion ( whom he also calls Sisythus ) took his children, their wives, and pairs of animals with him on the ark, and later built a great temple in Manbij ( northern Syria ), on the site of the chasm that received all the waters ; he further describes how pilgrims brought vessels of sea water to this place twice a year, from as far as Arabia and Mesopotamia, to commemorate this event.

Near the end, several boats ( Donald's included ) crashed and a loose motor pushed him into the finish line in the first place.

According to some Lemba claims, they had male ancestors who were Near Eastern Jews who left Judea about 2, 500 years ago and settled in a place called Senna in the Arabian peninsula, and later still, migrating into North East Africa.

Near that place, Holden found a tract with good springs and pine trees.

Near the Allegheny Mountain village of Jumonville, the Battle of Jumonville Glen took place.

Near the place of the Swedish town Nyen, close to the Neva river's estuary at the Gulf of Finland, the new Russian capital Saint Petersburg was founded in 1703.

The need for the building of a place for storage at all is at least necessitated by acquisitions through successes at war, in this respect wars history in the Near East is known as early as the sixth millennia.

Near the Great Bend of the Arkansas River, in a place he called Quivira, he met the ancestors of the Wichita people.

Near the mouth of the river, near Juffure, is James Island, a place used in the slave trade which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Near the old town, an Alemannic burial place was excavated in 1954 – 1957, dating from the 5th century.

Harbison also produces some evidence pointing to a later date and a different use: a letter by one Richard Pococke who visited the " oratory " in 1758, two years after it was " discovered " by Charles Smith: " Near this building they show a grave with a head at the cross of it and call it the tomb of the Giant ; the tradition is that Griffith More was buried there, & as they call'd a chapel, so probably it was built by him or his family at their burial place.

A meeting of British, French, and Italian statesmen to discuss Near Eastern affairs and the revision of the Sèvres Treaty was unofficially announced to take place early in February, but was postponed.

Near the station is the site of the former Vélodrome d ' hiver ( Winter Velodrome or " Vel'd ' Hiv "), which was famous for its cycling competitions but infamous as having been the first place of detention for thousands of Parisian Jews who were rounded up by the police on 16 and 17 July 1942 before their deportation to concentration camps.

Near the center of the town the Shooting Range ( Skopeftirion ) was built to house events of the first modern Olympic Games, the 1896 Summer Olympics, and these first modern games took place in three venues: the refurbished ancient stadium of Athens ( Panathinaiko Stadium ) 2 km NE of Kallithea, the Neo Phaliron Velodrome ( currently Karaiskaki Stadium ) 2 km SW of Kallithea, and the Kallithea Shooting Range ( Skopeftirion ).

Near this place a number of streams unite to form the river Arinos, which at latitude 10 degrees 25 ' joins the Juruena to form the Alto Tapajós, so called as far down as the Rio Manoel, which enters it from the east.

Near Janów, the Battle of Porytowe Wzgórze took place.

Gameplay consists of real-time tactical battles framed within a turn-based strategic campaign, taking place across Europe, North Africa and the Near East.

In Patterson v. Colorado, the Court had written: “ In the first place, the main purpose of such constitutional provisions is ' to prevent all such previous restraints upon publications as had been practiced by other governments ,' and they do not prevent the subsequent punishment of such as may be deemed contrary to the public welfare .” ( quoted in the Near decision ).

Near this is an oddly out of place lemon tree.

This hybridisation must have taken place in the Near East because this is where Ae.

Near the Danish straits the salinity is close to that of the Kattegat, but still not fully oceanic, because the saltiest water that passes the straits is still already mixed with considerable amounts of outflow water.

Near the former suburb other buildings and places are still named after him until now: the Albertbrücke, the Alberthafen, the Albertplatz and the Albertinum.

But its loss of influence in Italy and Germany, and the consequent formation of the Dual State, had at length indicated the proper, and, indeed, the only field for its diplomacy in the future – the Near East, where the process of the crystallization of the Balkan peoples into nationalities was still incomplete.

Graeme Barker states " The first indisputable evidence for domestic plants and animals in the Nile valley is not until the early fifth millennium bc in northern Egypt and a thousand years later further south, in both cases as part of strategies that still relied heavily on fishing, hunting, and the gathering of wild plants " and suggests that these subsistence changes were not due to farmers migrating from the Near East but was an indigenous development, with cereals either indigenous or obtained through exchange.

Greece was still fighting for independence from the Ottomans, and was effectively as exotic as the more Near Eastern parts of the empire.

An ancient method of butter making, still used today in parts of Africa and the Near East, involves a goat skin half filled with milk, and inflated with air before being sealed.

Near Stornoway, Laxdale, Sandwick and Holm, although still de-facto villages, have now become quasi-suburbs of Stornoway.

Near adult of nominate subspecies still showing some brown in the wings

Near defeat, though still active, the Montoneros detonated a bomb at Army headquarters on March 15, killing one and injuring 29.

In 620, the official language was changed from Latin to Greek, and although the Greek-speaking inhabitants were Romaioi ( Ῥωμαῖοι ), and were still considered Romans by themselves and the populations of Eastern Europe, the Near East, India, and China, many in Western Europe began to refer to the political entity as the " Greek Empire ".

Netsuke made from mammoth ivory ( huge quantities still exist in the Near East and Siberia ) fill part of the tourist trade demand today.

Near the end of his life, Maynard's first wife Lydia sold any rights she may have had in Maynard's property to a person who promptly sued Maynard for Lydia's share of Maynard's property in Seattle ( claiming that they had never been divorced ; while he was still married when he built his fortune, the common law is not entirely clear as to her claim ).

Near the heart of Ceneda and on a strategic mountain, the Lombards constructed the castello di San Martino which still overlooks the city.

Near Tindouf, Algeria, there still exists a Sahrawi refugee camp named after Smara.

Near Uplees, about 2. 5 miles ( 4 km ) northwest of the town centre but still within the parish, this was alongside the Swale, the deep-water channel that divides mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey.

Near the end of the book it keeps switching universes, some of which contain President Kennedy, others which contain President Lousewort, and still others in which Hubbard is the president.

The question of whether the Biblical Hittites of the first half of the first millennium BC are identical to the earlier Anatolian Hittites is still disputed in academic Biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies.

In many countries on the African continent, Central and South America as well as the Near, Middle and Far East this is still the case in the regions within these large geographies where the traditional village blacksmith remains alive and well.

Near the summit, rock outcrops of granite and sandstone can still be found.

It is still discussed among scholars of the Ancient Near East whether or not there is clear evidence for a seven-year cycle in Ugaritic texts.

The Burmese brow-antlered deer is ' Near Threatened ' and still occurs in reasonable numbers.

Near SR 138, Scott asked a county road crew which was resurfacing the road if it was still maintained by the county, and the crew replied that they didn't know who maintained it through the desert.

Near the north shore of Laguna Viconga, the remains of an old Sendero Luninoso base camp can be still visited, including a shooting range, barracks and a training field.