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.

Recently however, funding of projects such as the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research and Near Earth Asteroid Tracking projects has meant that most comets are now discovered by automated systems, long before it is possible for amateurs to see them.

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.

Yet, as Lemke and O ’ Connor point out, The Book of Lamentations, while adapting several traditional literary, historical, and cultural Near Eastern elements, is a unique literary composition, scripted to a specific historical situation, in response to an historical catastrophe, addressing the survivors of this catastrophe in a distinctive religious context.

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.

The Chicago River is the south border ( right ) of the Near North Side, Chicago | Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border ( left ) of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center ( from Lake Shore Drive's Link Bridge with Trump International Hotel and Tower ( Chicago ) | Trump International Hotel and Tower at jog in the river in the center )

The central commercial area often is portrayed, as in the map at right, to include parts of Near North Side and Near South Side, as well as the Loop.

Many myths, particularly from the Near East, feature a god who dies and is resurrected ; this figure is sometimes called the " dying god ".

* 10 Metropolises, out of which 7 Metropolises are in Egypt, 1 Metropolis in the Near East and 2 Metropolises are in Europe ; served by 4 Metropolitan Archbishops and 4 Metropolitan Bishops, while 2 Metropolis remain vacant ; out of the 8 Hierarchs, 1 Metropolitan Archbishop is in the Near East, 2 in Metropolitan Archbishops are in Egypt and 1 Metropolitan Archbishop is in The United Kingdom, while all 4 Metropolitan Bishops are in Egypt.

The highest mountains of the West Indies are in this range: Pico Duarte, 3, 098 m, and others above 3, 000 m. Near the center of the island, this range turns southward and is called Sierra de Ocoa, finishing near the city of Azua de Compostela, on the Caribbean coast.

* 1949 – United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is established to provide aid to Palestinian refugees who left their homes during the 1948 Palestinian exodus.

Near the end, Don Quixote reluctantly sways towards sanity: an inn is just an inn, not a castle.

Near the end of the 17th century, John Phillips, a nephew of poet John Milton, published what is considered by Putnam the worst English translated version.

Near the center is a CCC honor statue, which can be found in 30 different states in the country.

* Near the Gloucestershire village of Uley, Downham Hill is locally known as " Smallpox Hill " for its possible role in Jenner's studies of the disease.

The most recent study on the ante-Aesopic fables or the fables in ancient Near Eastern languages by Akimoto discovers the rich fable traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia ; for example, the Ninurta-uballitsu Assyrian fable collection which is the oldest known fable collection with the compiler's autograph and the completion date 883 BCE, the Hurrian-Hittite bilingual fable collections are embedded in a long myth and the storyteller tells after each fable his / her own moral.

In the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts it is revealed the ancient Egyptians believed Nun ( the Ocean ) was a circular body surrounding nbwt ( a term meaning " dry lands " or " Islands ") and therefore believed in a similar Ancient Near Eastern circular earth cosmography surrounded by water.

When, however, the Treaty of San Stefano threatened a Russian hegemony in the Near East, Andrássy concurred with the German and British courts that the final adjustment of matters must be submitted to a European congress.

Ukraine's various highland regions include the Volyn-Podillia Upland and the Near-Dnipro Upland ( on the right bank of Dnipro River ) in the west, the south-western spurs of the Central Russian Uplands upon which runs the border with Russia in the east, and the Donets Ridge and the Near Azov Upland near the Sea of Azov.

After the 2008 South Ossetia war, Bildt wrote on his blog that the Russian rationale for its intervention, i. e. concern for the welfare of its expatriates in the Near Abroad, had certain similarities with the rationale for the annexation of Sudetenland.

Near Forestville is the confluence of the Laguna de Santa Rosa and Mark West Creek with the Russian River.

Russia's intentions in the region were seen as a major geostrategic threat by the other European powers, which feared the disintegration of the Ottoman empire and the establishment of Russian hegemony in the Balkans and the Near East.

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.

Near the end of the 19th century, modern conservatories opened in many cities, and New York became the home of the Metropolitan Opera House in 1882 and Carnegie Hall in 1891, the latter's opening being marked by an appearance by the famed Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Questions of the oldest population of Georgia, Caucasus and the Near East ( a monograph ), Tbilisi, 1965 ( in Georgian, Russian summary )

Near Gzhatsk, in the village of Tsaryovo-Zaimishche on August 29, 1812, Kutuzov accepted command of the Russian army.

Near the Russian city of Donetsk ( Rostov oblast ), the river crosses the Donets ridge and flows in a narrow valley with steep and rocky slopes.

Near the end of the war Richard Baer, having replaced Otto Förschner as commandant of the Dora-Mittelbau camp in Thuringia Nordhausen, was responsible for the execution of Russian prisoners at mass gallows.

Near Bilyar in 1654 was founded a Russian border fort.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union this situation was reversed in the countries state schools of the " Near abroad " ( ближнее зарубежье, blizhneye zarubezhye ) — the term used in Russia for the post-Soviet states — and the use of Russian was discouraged, with the notable exceptions of Belarus, Krym, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan where Russian remains today an official language.

The islands were named Near Islands by Russian explorers in the 18th century because they were the nearest of the Aleutian Islands to Russia.

Near the end of the season, the IHP faces their Russian counterparts in an academic tournament, foreshadowing their famous trip to Moscow in Season 3.

Also, in violation of the agreement with the Allies, Russian troops still occupied parts of Iran and the Russians were putting pressure on Turkey and Greece in order to gain control of the Dardanelles and a passage to the Near East from the Black Sea.

Near the turn of the century, some limited local representative institutions existed in the Russian partition and Austrian partition, but they did not bear the name of sejmiks.

Bolotnikov's Battle with the Tsar's Army at Nizhniye Kotly Near Moscow by a Russian painter Ernst Lissner.

Near the end of October 2006, Russia ’ s Kommersant newspaper revealed that Russian state-run weapon exporter Rosoboronexport is completing negotiations with China to deliver up to 48 Sukhoi Su-33 ( NATO codename: Flanker-D ) carrier-capable fighter aircraft in a purchase deal reportedly worth $ 2. 5 billion.

Nikolai Gogol's first major work is called Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, where ' farm ' is a translation of ' khutor ' ( Russian: Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки, Vechera na khutore bliz Dikan ' ki ).

Boris Alexandrovich Turayev (;, Navahrudak – July 23, 1920, Petrograd ) was a Russian scholar who studied the Ancient Near East ( mainly Ancient Egypt and Nubia ).

Igor Mikhailovich Diakonoff () was a Russian historian, linguist, and translator and a renowned expert on the Ancient Near East and its languages.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek – Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1, 900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4, 400.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain – Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

* November 16 – American Civil War – Battle of Campbell's Station: Near Knoxville, Tennessee, Confederate troops led by General James Longstreet unsuccessfully attack Union forces under General Ambrose Burnside.

* November 24 – American Civil War – Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

* July 20 – American Civil War – Battle of Peachtree Creek: Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.

Near Newellton is the Winter Quarters Plantation restoration, where Union General Ulysses S. Grant and his men spent the winter of 1862-1863, prior to launching the assault in the spring and summer of 1863 against Vicksburg, Mississippi, to the northeast of Tensas Parish.

Near the end of the war, the Continental Army was augmented by a French expeditionary force ( under General Rochambeau ) and a squadron of the French navy ( under the Comte de Barras ), and in the late summer of 1781 the main body of the army travelled south to Virginia to rendezvous with the French West Indies fleet under Admiral Comte de Grasse.

Near the old fortress town of Monterrey, General Pedro de Ampudia received orders from Antonio López de Santa Anna to retreat further to the city of Saltillo, where Ampudia was to establish a defensive line.

Near Walawbum, a town believed by General Stilwell's NCAC staff to be lightly held, the 3rd Battalion fought magnificently, killing some 400 – 500 enemy soldiers.

Near the conclusion of the war the 10th Armored saw action with General Alexander Patch's Seventh United States Army.

* School of General Education Institute – Kurla High School ( Marathi Medium ) Near Kurla Railway Station.

Near the Cascades waterfall on the western edge of the park is an 1876 statue of Edward Bates, who was US Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln.

* Near the end of the opening credits, the score continues to its original ending for 25 seconds, with extra footage of General Aldo approaching on a horse.

Near Antop Hill, the government of India established the Intellectual Property Office responsible for Controlling General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks in India.

Near Bera ( Vera ) on 23 June, Captain General Don Ventura Caro with 8, 000 infantry and 500 cavalry and artillery tried unsuccessfully to oust a French force from a fortified position atop Mont Calvari.

Near the Iglesia La Asunción, the Francisco Menéndez Park has a monument to honor General Francisco Menéndez who was president of the republic.

: Site of Redan Battery | Near this spot Lieut-Col. John Macdonell Attorney General of Upper Canada was mortally wounded 13 October 1812.

His positions included: Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Personnel for the U. S. Department of State ; Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations ; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Near East and South Asian Affairs ; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asia ; Deputy Chief of Mission, American Embassy, Amman, Jordan, and Embassy Sanaa, Yemen ; head of the U. S. Liaison Office, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ; and Deputy Principal Officer, U. S. Interests Section, Damascus, Syria.