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 Guimarães, at the Battle of São Mamede ( 1128 ) he overcame the troops under his mother's second husband and ally Count Fernando Peres de Trava of Galicia, exiling her forever to a monastery in Galicia.

From the Medieval Arabic king lists of both African states, allegedly copied from earlier lists in ancient Near Eastern languages it appears that the state founders claimed to be deportees of the Assyrian empire who had fled from Syria and Samaria after the defeat of the Egyptian-Assyrian army at Carchemish in 605 BCE.

She died on 22 December 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey at age 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust.

The couple moved immediately to Near Sawrey, residing at Castle Cottage, the renovated farm house on Castle Farm.

File: Carved ivory depicting a woman at a window. jpg | Carved ivory object from the Nimrud Ivories, Phoenician, Nimrud, 9th-8th century BC ( the Nimrud Ivories are widely considered to be one of the Ancient Near East's greatest discoveries )

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.

The Near West Side holds the University of Illinois at Chicago and television production company of Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios.

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.

* X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structures at the iron K-edge.

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.

But its loss of influence in Italy and Germany, and the consequent formation of the Dual State, had at length indicated the proper, and, indeed, the only field for its diplomacy in the future – the Near East, where the process of the crystallization of the Balkan peoples into nationalities was still incomplete.

The Near East, c. 1190, at the outset of the Third Crusade.

The organisation's Templar Houses, hundreds of which were dotted throughout Europe and the Near East, gave them a widespread presence at the local level.

Near Uhlandstraße U-Bahn station is the Kempinski hotel as well as the Theater am Kurfürstendamm at the site of a former exhibition hall of the Berlin Secession art association.

Near the beam " waist " ( or focal region ) it is highly collimated: the wavefronts are planar, normal to the direction of propagation, with no beam divergence at that point.

In the ancient Near East, each city had a local patron deity, such as Shamash at Larsa or Sin at Ur.

Near their edges, the plateaus are cut by deep canyons, and at several points spectacular waterfalls drop to the narrow coastal plain.

However the idea of immortality which appears in the syncretistic religions of Near East did not exist in the Eleusinian mysteries at the very beginning.

It is possible that such a goddess was " imported " to both Greece and Italy from beliefs originating in the Near East during the extreme antiquity.

It is considered as Near Threatened or Vulnerable in most of the South American portion of its range: at the Southern extreme of its range, in Argentina, it's found only in the Parana Valley forests at the province of Misiones.

Near Lake Superior, the temperature differences are somewhat less extreme, but due to its proximity to the lake annual snowfalls over 100 inches are common.

Near the middle of the film he is seen on the extreme right introducing to a cheering crowd the city's basketball team at an indoor rally.

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.

Lack of archaeological evidence of iron production made it seem unlikely that it had begun earlier elsewhere, and the Iron Age was seen as a case of simple diffusion of a new and superior technology from an invention point in the Near East to other regions.

The history of the Ancient Near East begins in the Lower Paleolithic period, and ends with either the arrival of the Achaemenid Empire in the late 6th century BC, or with the Arab Islamic conquest of Mesopotamia and the establishment of the Caliphate in the late 7th century AD, from which point the region came to be known as Iraq.

Back scabbards were never used in European, Near East, or Indian military cultures, and depictions of such are a modern invention and have enjoyed great popularity in fiction and fantasy, to the point that they are widely believed to be a Medieval invention.

The fall of Babylon is taken as a fixed point in the discussion of the chronology of the ancient Near East.

Near the school, some of the city's oldest houses, apartments, and commercial buildings were torn down ; they had been run down to the point of being known as the " Warren Avenue slum ".

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

References in the Tanakh point to an awareness of human sacrifice in the history of ancient Near Eastern practice.

Near the critical point, the fluid is sufficiently hot and compressed that the distinction between the liquid and gaseous phases is almost non-existent.

The sacredness of ' high places ' as a meeting point between realms is a pre-Ubaid belief well attested in the Near East back the Neolithic age.

Near the point where the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean meet, Cape Henry was the site of the first landing of the English colonists, who eventually settled in Jamestown, on April 26, 1607.

Near Pointe des Almadies, the north-western tip of the cape, lies Dakar's international airport, famous as a transatlantic ferrying point during World War II.

This is seen as one of the final acts in the Great Schism between the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church, and a key turning point in the decline of the Empire and of Christianity in the Near East.

Near Charles Mound, the highest point in Illinois at 1235 feet, Scales Mound is said to be " At the Top of Illinois ".

Near the northeast corner of town, Route 8A grazes the border ( at which point it is combined with Route 116 ), with a small neighborhood lying around Windsor Pond.

Near the southwest corner of town is Negus Mountain, along the western ridge, and along the eastern ridge lies Todd Mountain and Adams Mountain, the highest point in town.

# Near total thyroidectomy-Both lobes are removed except for a small amount of thyroid tissue ( on one or both sides ) in the vicinity of the recurrent laryngeal nerve entry point and the superior parathyroid gland ; done in papillary thyroid carcinoma

* Near point of convergence ( Optometry )

* Near point of convergence, a measure of the eye's ability to converge

Near the sonic speed ( M = 1 ) the transformation features a singularity, although this point is not within the area of validity.

The Near East is generally believed to have been the focal point for where this first occurred.

Near the southernmost point is Laem Promthep ( Brahma's Cape ), which is a popular sunset viewing point.