The eight books in the series starting with the Tale of Hill Top Farm ( 2004 ) deal with her life in the Lake District and the village of Near Sawrey between 1905 and 1913.

Near the end of his life, Richard P. Feynman gave a series of lectures on QED intended for the lay public.

Near the end of the decade, some comic science fiction shows were popular: 3rd Rock from the Sun, and the animated series Futurama.

Near the end of the 2000s, Fox launched a few series that proved to be powerful hits in different respects.

Near the end of the series, Altena states that " Les Soldats " has been consumed by the very greed they once swore to undo, and thus had become like the world itself.

Near the end of the war, the series of new Fallschirmjäger divisions extended to over a dozen, with a concomitant reduction in quality in the higher-numbered units of the series.

Near the end of the series it's hinted that Veruca and Larry have a crush on each other.

Near the end of the series, it is revealed that there is a surgery which might either correct Minako's condition or kill her early.

Near the end of 2007, after several releases in the 0. 6. x series that included all known security fixes, version 1. 0 was released under the LGPL v2. 1, with libmpg123 branded as a full-featured replacement for mpglib.

The Assyrian Empire which had been the dominant force in the Near East for much of the period from the 14th Century BC began to unravel after the death of Ashurbanipal in 627 BC, descending into a series of bitter internal civil wars.

Near the end of the show, Cleese presents the Silly Walk, rendered on radio as a series of loud, slow footsteps.

In 1907, the Anglo-Russian Entente was agreed, which attempted to resolve a series of long-running disputes over Persia, Afghanistan and Tibet, as well as helping to address British fears about German expansion in the Near East.

Near the end of the Nickelodeon series, she defeated White in election as mayor.

This series has been broadcast in 36 countries, among them Germany ( Super RTL ), Belgium ( RTL TVI ), Canada ( Télé-Quebec ), Estonia ( ETV ), Spain ( Antena 3, Disney Channel, Toon Disney and TV3 ), Finland ( MTV3 ), Cyprus ( CyBC ), Greece ( Alter Channel ), Ireland ( RTÉ ), Italy ( Italia 1 ), Portugal ( Prisvideo ), Switzerland ( TSR ), Russia ( THT Network ), Hungary ( Minimax ), Slovenia ( RTV ), Morocco ( 2M Soreheads ), Turkey ( Yumurcak TV ), Mexico ( TV Azteca ), Brazil ( Rede Globo ), Venezuela ( RCTV ), Indonesia ( RCTI and B Channel ), Malaysia ( TV3 and TV9 ), the Africa Pansat ( CFI ), and Latin America ( MVS ), the Near East and Middle East ( TV5 ), ( E-Junior ), Vietnam ( HTV7 ), Thailand ( United Broadcasting Corporation ), South Korea ( EBS ) Iceland ( Uppeldi EHF ), and South Africa ( SABC ).

He is especially known for a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced during the 1840s from sketches he made during long tours of the region ( 1838 – 1840 ).

Near Harad later formed an alliance — or maybe even a coalition of some sort — with the Corsairs of Umbar, and was involved in a series of continual battles with Gondor over South Gondor or Harondor.

Near the beginning of the series, Achilles is established as an enemy of one of the main characters, Julian " Bean " Delphiki, another citizen of Rotterdam.

Near the end of the series all of the Taxxons on Earth chose to become large snakes and live in the Amazon, free of their uncontrollable hunger.

Near the beginning of the series, Tommy is kidnapped by Mesogog.

Near the series end, Eugene and Jimmy fire Alan without consulting Ellenor, creating a phenomenon known as a law firm divorce.

Near the end of the 5th season, in the episode " There's Only One Sydney Bristow " ( also the series ' 100th episode ), Tippin is kidnapped by Anna Espinosa and used as bait for Sydney.

Currently, the Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern collections are housed in a series of galleries in the Museum.

Near the end of the Walker series, Norris's character married his longtime girlfriend, an assistant district attorney played by Sheree J. Wilson, while Gilyard's character was given a girlfriend.

In 2009, Morrissey and a team of filmmakers ran a series of drama workshops for Palestinian refugee children in Beirut, Lebanon, in conjunction with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA ).

Near the center of all this was Seattle artist Paul Horiuchi's massive mosaic mural, the region's largest work of art at the time, which now forms the backdrop of Seattle Center's Mural Amphitheater.

The German Egyptologist Wolfgang Helck once argued that the Hyksos were part of massive and widespread Hurrian and Indo-Aryan migrations into the Near East.

Near this crossover of the two gains at f < sub > 0dB </ sub >, the Barkhausen criteria are almost satisfied in this example, and the feedback amplifier exhibits a massive peak in gain ( it would be infinity if β A < sub > OL </ sub > =

Near the coast, the depths are shallower than but they rapidly increase northwards up to a few kilometers, transforming into a massive platform which is geologically similar to that of the oceans.

Near midnight, the vessel began to take on massive amounts of water.

Near the RSJ which spans the moat are seen five massive cracks and more repair work, again from the siege trials of 1907, but this time, the hole in the base of the ditch was not dug by the defenders but was the result of a failed " camoflet " or " petard ".

He is noted for his books, Thespis: Ritual, Myth, and Drama in the Ancient Near East ( 1950 ), The Dead Sea Scriptures, about the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as his one-volume abridgement of Sir James Frazer's massive 13-volume work The Golden Bough, to which Gaster contributed updates, corrections and extensive annotations.

Near Barrage Cavagnac, there is a hydroelectric dam that has created the artificial lake Lalla Takerkoust.

Near many Kulli culture sites dams were found, providing evidence for a highly developed water management system.

but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East -- which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities -- recognized only four??

There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

As with the West Africa theory, this idea does not have the backing of serious historians, nor contemporary written records of the time in the Near East.

Near the location of the present train station, the ruins of a settlement from the Bronze Age ( about 1000 BC ) have been excavated.

While these and other ancient Near Eastern texts consider comparable issues, scholars have not found their direct antecedent.

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 impacts have been depicted in Jules Verne's Off on a Comet and Tove Jansson's Comet in Moominland, while a large manned space expedition visits Halley's Comet in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three.

In addition to ongoing beautification and renewal projects for the existing parks, a number of new parks have been added in recent years, such as the Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown, DuSable Park on the Near North Side, and most notably, Millennium Park in a section of one of Chicago's oldest parks, Grant Park in the Chicago Loop.

Some scholars have argued that the calm, orderly, monotheistic creation story in Genesis 1 can be interpreted as a reaction against the creation myths of other Near Eastern cultures.

Near Padstow, a Roman site of some importance now lies buried under the sands on the opposite side of the Camel estuary near St. Enodoc's Church, and may have been a western coastal equivalent of a Saxon Shore Fort.

For example, in the Shanidar cave in Iraq, in Pontnewydd Cave in Wales and other sites across Europe and the Near East, Neanderthal skeletons have been discovered with a characteristic layer of flower pollen.

Ben E. Perry ( compiler of the " Perry Index " of Aesop's fables ) has argued controversially that some of the Buddhist Jataka tales and some of the fables in the Panchatantra may have been influenced by similar Greek and Near Eastern ones.

Most ancient cultures have had conceptions of a flat Earth, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period ( early centuries AD ) and China until the 17th century.

Near the Senegal border there have been historic sightings of the Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus, but that endangered canid may now be extirpated in that locale.

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

This Harifian culture may have adopted the use of pottery from the Isnan culture and Helwan culture of Egypt ( which lasted from 9000-4500 BC ), and subsequently fused with elements from the PPNB culture during the climatic crisis of 6000 BC to form what Juris Zarins calls the Syro-Arabian pastoral technocomplex, which saw the spread of the first Nomadic pastoralists in the Ancient Near East.

Near the end of his life, Justinian became ever more inclined towards the Monophysite doctrine, especially in the form of Aphthartodocetism, but he died before being able to issue any legislation which would have elevated its teachings to the status of dogma.

* In Die Erde is nah: die Marsexpedition ( 1970 ), by Ludek Pesek, published in English as The Earth is Near ( 1973 ), a crew of twenty men undertake the first manned mission to Mars, and after landing in the wrong area due to computer malfunction and / or human error, have to cope with vicious sand storms, and a long trek undertaken in vehicles to their original intended area of exploration.

Scholars have seen strong influences from Near Eastern mythology and literature in the Odyssey.

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 the temple have been found terracotta figures with human bodies, and heads of animals.

* 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.

Although there are depictions of sieges from the ancient Near East in historical sources and in art, there are very few examples of siege systems that have been found archaeologically.