Near the present-day town of Larino in the Molise ( then called Larinum ), Hannibal had taken up position in a town called Gerione.

* 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.

On July 12, 1967 the Secretary of State announced that the U. S. position on the Near East crisis was outlined in the President's statement of June 19 and that it provided the basis for a just and equitable settlement between the Arab states and Israel.

Near the spot where Gustavus Adolphus fell, a granite boulder was placed in position on the day after the battle.

Near the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu became a great power under King Helu of Wu, and was able to defeat in 484 BC the state of Qi, a major power in the north in modern-day Shandong province, and contest for the position of overlord over all states of China.

The position of emperor was increasingly influenced by Near Eastern concepts of kingship.

Wilson also wanted to reinforce the Near East-although not enough to satisfy Amery-lest Germany and Turkey were left free by the collapse of Russia to expand there, which would improve their position in any future war a decade hence.

After leaving his position as Chief of Staff, Ya ' alon has spent time in the think tank Washington Institute for Near East Policy and became a Senior Fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center Institute for International and Middle East Studies.

Thackston has retired from his position at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.

* Near Fall: This is similar to the exposure ( or danger position ) points given in Greco-Roman and freestyle.

Near the beginning of his career, but with a reputation for knowledge about housing issues, the young Weaver was appointed to a position in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration in 1934, becoming one of his Black Cabinet.

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.

After leaving his position as envoy, Ross returned to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy as counselor and Ziegler distinguished fellow.

Near the town are the ruins of a fortress, mentioned as Sarapana by Strabo and Sarapanis by Procopius as a strong position on the road that led from Colchis to Iberia.

* Near Fall: This is similar to the points for exposure or the danger position awarded in the international styles of wrestling, but the emphasis for near falls is on control, not risk.

Near the end of his second term, he was appointed as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Transport, a position in which he served from 1961 to 1962.

The Ellerman group of companies now occupied a dominating position in the Mediterranean and Near East.

In the Near eastern myth of the primitive agricultural societies, every year the fertility goddess bore the " god of the new year ", who then became her lover, and died immediately in order to be reborn and face the same destiny.

Near Abū Qīr, on 8 March 1801, units of the British army commanded by Sir Ralph Abercromby landed from their transports in the face of a strenuous opposition from a French force entrenched on the beach.

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 top of the column, on each of the three sides, is the engraved image of the face of each crew member set into a stylized triangle.

Near this bridge the precipices were so impractible that the path had to be supported on iron pegs let into the face of the rock-the path being formed by bars of iron and slabs of stone stretching from peg to peg and covered with earth.

Near the climax of The Matrix Reloaded, Neo meets the Architect face to face in a large oval-shaped room with two doors, whose walls are covered with television monitors.

Near the end of the 2010 season, Konerko was hit in the face by Minnesota Twins pitcher Carl Pavano.

Near the bottom of the pendulum's swing the tooth slides off the dead face onto the slanted ' impulse ' face of the pallet, allowing the escape wheel to turn and give the pendulum a push, before dropping off the pallet.

Near the beginning of the north face, instead of a bastion, a cavalier called Santa Barbara was built with three faces of batteries, one looking seaward over the anchorage place, one facing the entrance, and the third looking upon the river.

Near this point are Lamoille Falls, Camp Lamoille ( available for group rental ), and the precipitous north face of Mount Gilbert.

Near the end of The Waste Lands, Blaine the Mono challenges Roland's companions, Eddie Dean and Susannah Dean, to solve a button-based riddle or face death.

Near the catafalque was a wooden crucifix and a paschal candle symbolic of Jesus Christ as the light of the world in the face of darkness and death.

Near the end of year 2000 the Lanos was introduced with a different rear end design and a face lifted front.

Near the end, he deliberately leaves the camp, against a direct order, and causes a face off between the Isenj and Shan's search party.

With the emergence of monarchy at the beginning of Iron Age II the king promoted his own family god, Yahweh, as the god of the kingdom, but beyond the royal court religion continued to be both polytheistic and family-centered, as it was also for other societies in the Ancient Near East.

The Seleucid dynasty or the Seleucidae ( from, ) was a Greek Macedonian royal family, founded by Seleucus I Nicator (" the Victor "), which ruled the Seleucid Kingdom centered in the Near East and regions of the Asian part of the earlier Achaemenid Persian Empire during the Hellenistic period.

Near to Sandringham house is the Royal Stud, a stud farm that houses many of the royal horses.

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In ancient Near Eastern cosmology the point where heavenly and earthly realms join is sometimes depicted as an earthly " garden of God ", associated with the temple and royal palace.

Near this village there was once a royal hunting-box, where both King Edward I and King Edward II were known to have resided.

One of the most important discoveries at the site has been the cuneiform royal archives of clay tablets, consisting of official correspondence and contracts, as well as legal codes, procedures for cult ceremony, oracular prophecies and literature of the ancient Near East.

Near Lop Nur, he discovered the ruins of the former walled royal city and later Chinese garrison town of Lulan, containing the brick building of the Chinese military commander, a stupa, and 19 dwellings built of poplar wood.

These proveniences indicate that the Late Bronze Age Aegean was the medium of an international trade perhaps based on royal gift-giving in the Near East.

Near the old Berlin Gate a series of imposing buildings was constructed, including the neo-Romanesque imperial palace ( now called Zamek ), completed in 1910, which lent the city the status of a royal residence.

Kline has argued that comparisons between the suzerainty-vassal treaties and royal grants of the Ancient Near East provide insight in highlighting certain distinctive features of the Mosaic covenant as a law covenant, in contrast with the other historic post-Fall covenants.

An archive of over 200 letters have been found from the royal palace at Hattusa which show that Hattusili exchanged letters with numerous Near Eastern kings including Ramesses II.

Near his palace at Cardross on the River Clyde he spent his last days in shipbuilding ; and one royal man-of-war of the Viking type at least was equipped by him before he died in 1329.