Near Limerick, a short canal connects Plassey with the Abbey River, allowing boats to bypass the Curraghower Falls, a major obstacle to navigation.

Near King's Norton Junction there is a disused stop lock, which used to prevent the canal taking water from the Worcester and Birmingham Canal when they were separately owned, but is now left permanently open.

Near the canal runs an ancient stone trackway, the Diolkos, once used for dragging ships overland.

Near here is the newly developed Lyme Valley Parkway-Lyme Brook runs to the west of the canal line.

Image: CountryParkRH. jpg | Near the canal Cotgrave Country Park

Near Lower Farm, a bridge on the Thornfalcon to Creech road is now a grade II listed structure, and the three-arched aqueduct which carried the canal over the River Tone is largely intact, although it no longer has its parapets.

Near Blackrock, which facilitates boat access from the canal to Lough Allen, Crannong ' ( lake dwellings ) can be seen when the lake levels are low.

Near the Vyrnwy Aquedect arches were built in the embankment of the canal, to provide protection from flooding of the River Vyrnwy.

Near Morton, Lincolnshire, a boatload of dressed quarry stone, identified with the mediaeval period, has been discovered in the canal bed.

It is here that the Appian Way first touches the sea ... Near Tarracina, as you go toward Rome, there is a canal that runs alongside the Appian Way, and is fed at numerous places by waters from the marshes and the rivers ...

Near the top of the canal, a branch was constructed in 1800, which ran towards Maesmarchog, and was connected to collieries by nearly of tramroad.

Near the mountainous Algerian border in the west rises Tunisia's highest point, Jebel ech Chambi at 1544 meters.

Near the Argentine border, the floor of the Altiplano rises again, creating hills and volcanoes that span the gap between the eastern and western cordilleras of the Andes.

Near Cunninghams Gap, Mount Mitchell ( Queensland ) | Mount Mitchell rises to an elevation of 1168 m.

Near latitude 50 ˚ N, it sets around the time Sirius rises, and does not reappear until Antares sets.

Near the visible promontory of Mount Nemo that rises some 200 m ( 650 ft ) above the lake level, a " vertical forest " of white cedar clinging to the Escarpment face includes many small trees that are more than a thousand years old.

Near the marine park, Mount Takasaki Monkey Park rises steeply from the shoreline.

Near the La Brea Tar Pits, smoke rises out along with lava bombs.

Near Burgess it is joined from the northwest by the Great Pee Dee River which rises in north central North Carolina.

Near the Old Village on the beach is a sculpture of dolphins, which when the lake rises in a flood, gives the impression that they are jumping out of the water.

Near the center, the bridge rises in an arc to provide-high clearance for boat passage.

Near its mouth, the bottom rises abruptly to a sill about below sea level.

Near record high water rises were recorded around Wilmington.

Near the end, the dead body of Helena ( played by actress and dancer Tracy Phillips ) rises and dances down the nave representing crossing over into the afterlife.

Near Q, both curves can be represented by analytic functions of U.

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 west end of Lake Thun, the river receives the waters of the Kander, which has just been joined by the Simme.

It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.

Near the end of the days of the vow, Paul was recognized outside Herod's Temple and was nearly beaten to death by a mob, " shouting, ' Men of Israel, help us!

Near the bottom of the picture, a squiggly line appears ; apparently, a stream | creek created by recent rain.

* Thespis: Ritual, Myth, and Drama in the Ancient Near East by Theodor Gaster.

The destruction of cities by foreign invaders, and its resulting catastrophic suffering, unfortunately, was very common in the ancient Near East and, therefore, we can observe examples of the lament form / genre concerning destroyed cities and temples from extra-biblical sources, particularly from early Sumerian Literature dating to the late third and early second millennia BC.

Hill Top, Near Sawrey – Potter's former home, now owned by the National Trust and preserved as it was when she lived and wrote her stories there.

At that time, Sloane's collection consisted of around 71, 000 objects of all kinds including some 40, 000 printed books, 7, 000 manuscripts, extensive natural history specimens including 337 volumes of dried plants, prints and drawings including those by Albrecht Dürer and antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Ancient Near and Far East and the Americas.

Formerly the Department of the Ancient Near East, with a collection numbering some 330, 000 works, the British Museum possesses by far the world's largest and most important collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq.

Comiskey moved his St. Paul club to the Near South Side and renamed it the White Stockings, grabbing a nickname that had once been used by the Chicago Cubs.

The Chaldeans, like the rest of Mesopotamia and much of the ancient Near East and Asia Minor, from the 10th to late 7th centuries BC, came to be dominated by the vast Assyrian Empire, based in northern Mesopotamia.

* 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.

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.

The association of the serpent with a monstrous opponent overcome by a heroic deity has its roots in the mythology of the Ancient Near East, including Canaanite ( Hebrew, Ugaritic ), Hittite and Mesopotamian.

Near the beginning of the first book of the Elements, Euclid gives five postulates ( axioms ) for plane geometry, stated in terms of constructions ( as translated by Thomas Heath ):

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.

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.

Near Lima, Drake captured a Spanish ship laden with 25, 000 pesos of Peruvian gold, amounting in value to 37, 000 ducats of Spanish money ( about £ 7m by modern standards ).

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.

The language of the Hattusa tablets was eventually deciphered by a Czech linguist, Bedřich Hrozný ( 1879 – 1952 ), who on 24 November 1915 announced his results in a lecture at the Near Eastern Society of Berlin.

Near the castle ruins, on the West Hill, are " St Clement's Caves ", partly natural, but mainly excavated by hand by the smugglers from the soft sandstone.