Near the end of his service he wrote that when the war was over he was going to buy two pups, name one of them `` Fall-in '' and the other `` Close-up '', and then shoot them both, `` and that will be the end of Fall-in and Close-up ''.

Muwaffaq al-Din Muhammad ' Abd al-Latif ibn Yusuf al-Baghdadi (; 1162 – 1231 ), more commonly known as ' Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi or ' Abdallatif al-Baghdadi (), born in Baghdad, Iraq, was a celebrated physician, historian, Egyptologist and traveller, and one of the most voluminous writers of the Near East in his time.

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.

In addition to ongoing beautification and renewal projects for the existing parks, a number of new parks have been added in recent years, such as the Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown, DuSable Park on the Near North Side, and most notably, Millennium Park in a section of one of Chicago's oldest parks, Grant Park in the Chicago Loop.

The Code of Hammurabi was one of several sets of laws in the ancient Near East.

It also reflected the difficulties imposed on the Empire by the need to support two separate fronts: one against the Austrians ( see: Ottoman wars in Europe ), and the other against a rival Islamic state, the Safavids of Persia ( see: Ottoman wars in Near East ).

Acigöl town and the Göllü Dağ volcano were the most important sources in central Anatolia, one of the more important source areas in prehistoric Near East.

Near the end of his life Solomon was forced to contend with several enemies including Hadad of Edom, Rezon of Zobah, and one of his officials named Jeroboam who was from the tribe of Ephraim.

Near the end of the book, while Ralph is being hunted down, he strikes this twice in one moment of blind anger, causing it to crack and fall on the ground with a grin " now six feet across ".

Yemen is one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East.

Near Mount Yamanlar in İzmir ( ancient Smyrna ), where the Lake Karagöl ( Lake Tantalus ) associated with the accounts surrounding him is found, is a monument mentioned by Pausanias: the tholos " tomb of Tantalus " ( later Christianized as " Saint Charalambos ' tomb ") and another one in Mount Sipylus, and where a " throne of Pelops ", an altar or bench carved in rock and conjecturally associated with his son is found.

* Near and far field, the radiated field that is within one quarter of a wavelength of the diffracting edge or the antenna and beyond.

Bands playing this subgenre include The Grascals, Mountain Heart, The Infamous Stringdusters, Steep Canyon Rangers, Pert Near Sandstone, Cadillac Sky, Waterfall Blue Boys, and Cherryholmes who all have more than one lead singer.

Near the end of his life he is believed to have left for Valinor on one of the last ships of Círdan, as he too was a Ring-bearer, having borne the One Ring during Frodo's captivity by the orcs.

According to a Near Eastern Christian legend, Zeno had two daughters, Hilaria and Thaopesta, who followed a religious life, but historical sources attest the existence of only one son by Arcadia, called Zenon.

These Greek stories of the Titanomachy fall into a class of similar myths throughout Europe and the Near East, where one generation or group of gods by and large opposes the dominant one.

* Near Wamsutter, Wyoming, on the Continental Divide along old U. S. 30, a monument was erected in 1938 to Henry B. Joy, the first president of the LHA, with an inscription describing Joy as one " who saw realized the dream of a continuous improved highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

It was one of the first crops domesticated in the Near East.

In Aztec mythology, Tloquenahuaque or Tloque Nahuaque (" Lord of the Near and the Nigh ") was one of the epithets of Tezcatlipoca.

Near this is Brixton, home to Lambeth Town Hall and to the Brixton Murals, although one of these is actually in Stockwell ( see picture below ).

Near the end of the pooja, the one performing the pooja must give something to those that were present at the pooja.

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 the end of the conflict, March operated as one of the reception centers for returning prisoners of war.

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.

Near the center of all this was Seattle artist Paul Horiuchi's massive mosaic mural, the region's largest work of art at the time, which now forms the backdrop of Seattle Center's Mural Amphitheater.

Near Antwerp, the largest city on its banks, the Scheldt flows west into the Netherlands towards the North Sea.

Near the entrance to nearby Ten Sleep Canyon is the former site of the Girl Scout National Center West, a portion of which was one of the largest encampments in the world at.

Near the city of Larvik is the largest naturally occurring beech forest in Norway.

Attu () is the westernmost and largest island in the Near Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and the westernmost

Near its center is the fovea, a small pit that contains the largest concentration of cone cells in the eye and is responsible for central, high resolution vision.

Near the western edge of the township, just outside of Cambridge, Ontario is Puslinch Lake, the largest kettle lake in North America.

Near Turnu Severin are the remains of the celebrated Trajan's Bridge, the largest in the Empire.

When opened in 1930, the Merchandise Mart ( or the Merch Mart, or the Mart ), located in the Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, United States, was the largest building in the world with of floor space.

Near the city emperor Diocletian, born in Salona, built the Diocletian's Palace ( around year 300 AD ), which is the largest and most important monument of late antique architecture in the World.

Near the town of Sarov there is the largest and the most famous convent in Russia, established by Saint Seraphim of Sarov-Diveevo convent.

Near the town of Medicine Bow the Medicine Bow River is joined by its two largest tributaries, Rock Creek and the Little Medicine Bow River.

Based in the American Dental Association Building in the Near North Side of Chicago, the ADA is the world's largest and oldest national dental association and promotes good oral health to the public while representing the dental profession.

Near Avenue L what was believed to be the largest all-kosher supermarket in the United States opened in August 2008.

Near the border to Mitte the former S-Bahn station Lehrter Stadtbahnhof was demolished to make space for the new central station Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Europe's largest two level railway station, where the east-west and the north-south railway axis meet.

The Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies ( often simply referred to as the BYU Jerusalem Center, or BYU – Jerusalem ), situated on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, Israel, is a satellite campus of Brigham Young University ( BYU ), the largest religious university in the United States.

Near the Motagua river, the largest in Guatemala that crosses all over El Progreso to Zacapa, in direction to Izabal, it can be found big extensions of green lands, and cities and villages near it.

Near the city of Sambalpur, it is dammed by the largest earthen dam in the world, the Hirakud Dam.

Near each end of the boom Château-Renault had moored two of his largest men-of-war: the Bourbon, and the Esperance.

Near Fenzhongsi Bridge is what is claimed to be the largest restaurant in Asia.

Near Lucerne, this motorway passes through the Sonnenberg Tunnel, which until recently was the world's largest nuclear blast shelter.

The largest of the Near Islands are Attu and Agattu.

Near Andong, a series of massive hydroelectric dams have been constructed, creating a small chain of artificial lakes of which Andong Lake is the largest.