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.

Near Wickes is the Boggs Springs Youth Encampment of the American Baptist Association, a retreat of Missionary Baptist churches.

Near the same area on July 4 of the following year, the killer struck again, killing Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin and injuring Michael Mageau at the Blue Rock Springs Park in Vallejo, immediately next to Benicia.

Near the city limits of Coachella are three casinos on Indian reservations: Fantasy Springs Resort and Casino, Spotlight 29 Casino, and Augustine Casino, which are owned and operated by Native American tribes — the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, Twentynine Palms Band of Mission Indians, and Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians, respectively.

Near Little Hot Springs Valley is Bumpass Hell, which is a hydrothermally altered geothermal area that spans 16 acres ( 65, 000 m² ) and has hot springs, fumaroles, and mud pots.

Near Historic Cold Springs Village, Hunt's abandoned storage and maintenance site still holds signs and parts of former rides, including boats for the Log Flume, trains for the Flyer that are currently under restoration, and letters that were part of the Hunt's Pier Skyline Golf sign that stood opposite from the pier on top of the Ocean Theater.

Near the Juniper Prairie Wilderness and Juniper Springs is " The Yearling Trail ", the location where The Yearling was filmed.

Near the railroad, in the 1890s, a lodge, known as Madison Hot Springs, was built to accommodate seekers of these mineral baths who arrived by train from Seattle.

Near Dunderhole Point on Glebe Cliff stands a building from the former slate quarry: this has been used as Tintagel Youth Hostel ( managed by YHA ( England and Wales )) for many years.

Near the end of his term, his efforts to set up a summit meeting with the Soviets collapsed because of the U-2 incident when an American spy plane was shot down over Russia and its pilot captured.

* 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.

According to CIA officer Duane " Dewey " Claridge, chief of operations of the CIA Near East Division from 1975 to 1978, in mid-1976, Salameh offered Americans assistance and protection with Arafat's blessings during the American embassy pull-out from Beirut during the down-spiraling chaos of the Lebanese Civil War.

* 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.

Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.

* 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.

* August 9 – American Indian Wars – Battle of Big Hole: Near Big Hole River in Montana, a small band of Nez Percé Indians who refused government orders to move to a reservation, clash with the United States Army.

* 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.

** American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting cowboy Charles McCarthy ( the cowboys were terrorizing the area's Hispanos and Baca was working against them ).

Near the site of van der Donck's mill is Philipse Manor Hall, a Colonial-era manor house which today serves as a museum and archive, offering many glimpses into life before the American Revolution.

* American singer / songwriter Holly Near was born in Ukiah.

Near the conclusion of the American Civil War, when Louisiana became part of the Department of Mississippi, St. Joseph served as the chief route across the Mississippi River.

Near this fort in the same year, about three and one-half miles above downtown Rogersville, Colonel Amis erected a fort-like stone house, around which he built a palisade for protection against Native American attacks.

* Near Traverse City are two other tall ships, the Schooner Madeline and the long replica of the sloop Welcome, an 18th century British warship sloop, which was built for the 1976 Bicentennial of the American Revolution.

" Another American observer, Robert Pelletreau, Jr., assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, believes it the other way around, Islamism being the subset of Muslims " with political goals ... within " the " broader fundamentalist revival ".

He is a member of several think-tanks including the Hudson Institute, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy ( WINEP ) Board of Advisors, the Center for Security Policy ( CSP ), the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research ( as a resident fellow ), the neoconservative Project for the New American Century ( PNAC ), and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs ( JINSA ).

Ali Ahmad Jalali ( born 1940 ) is an Afghan American and a Distinguished Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies of the United States ' National Defense University.

The use of these wheat varieties has also had a substantial effect on production in six Latin American countries, six countries in the Near and Middle East, and several others in Africa.