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Near Sargans a natural dam, only a few metres high, prevents it from flowing into the open Seeztal valley and then trough Lake Walen and Lake Zurich into the river Aare.
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but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East -- which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities -- recognized only four??
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.
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.
This was followed by The Danube in Prehistory ( 1929 ), in which Childe examined the archaeology along the Danube river, recognising it as the natural boundary dividing the Near East from Europe, and subsequently he believed that it was via the Danube that various new technologies travelled westward in antiquity.
Near Hana are natural areas and several swimming holes in the Haleakala National Park.
Near the former confluence was an area that was slightly more elevated than the surroundings, a natural levee, which-in an area that is prone to flooding-made it an attractive location for settlement.
Milos natural glass used for razor sharp " stone tools " was transported well before farming began and later: " There is no early farming village in the Near East that doesn't get obsidian ".
Near the novel's conclusion, Tip and Rain are reunited and have just finished making love while Mombey performs a spell called " To Call the Lost Forward ", in order to return Liir to his proper form ; the spell inadvertently also returns Tip to his true form ( Ozma ) and restores Rain's natural green skin.
Near the town of Alfred, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources has designated the Alfred Bog as " a provincially significant wetland and an area of natural and scientific interest.
Near today ’ s Miltenberg, the Limes came up against the Main, which from here northwards formed the Roman Empire ’ s natural border with Germania.
Near Rhodes Memorial there are a few surviving natural stands of a famous native tree called the Silvertree.
Near the bridge is the Earl of Mar's Punch Bowl-a natural hole in a rock midstream that was literally used as a punchbowl at the end of hunting deer in the neighbouring forest.
Near to the Quarry Bank Mill site there is a natural weir.
Near the age of 35, women typically cease to create as much natural progesterone, which counters the effects of estrogen.
Near Polson the river leaves the natural basin of Flathead Lake, but first passes through Kerr Dam, which maintains the level of Flathead Lake artificially.
Near the most northern part of the zone in the topmost strip where Baltimore County meets south central Pennsylvania, numerous mini tornadoes and wind storms zip through the fields unfettered by buildings or natural land changes to halt their progress.
Near this junction around 1830, Charner Humphries established an inn / tavern which came to be known as Whitehall due to the then unusual fact that it had a coat of white paint when most other buildings were of washed or natural wood.
* Khat, also known as gat, a plant that is chewed as a natural stimulant in the Near East and Africa
Near the arts and crafts fair in Pajuçara is also where the rafts leave for the natural pools formed by choral reefs, where the tourist will find floating bars.
The bee, found in Ancient Near East and Aegean cultures, was believed to be the sacred insect that bridged the natural world to the underworld.
Near the end of the Ravers series, Sparx began to lose her powers, and in frustration told Hero that she not only didn't want to be his friend any more, but what he was doing was " not natural " and " wrong ".
Near New Street, the creek once turned and flowed south of Maroondah Highway down the now dry bed of the upper Heatherdale creek and into the Dandenong Creek and Port Philip Bay, but a natural ' river capture ' has now taken the waters of the creek and diverted them through a narrow gap in the hills to the north and the Yarra River.
Due to ongoing habitat loss, occasional natural disasters and trapping for the wild parrot trade, the Cuban Amazon is evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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Near Barrage Cavagnac, there is a hydroelectric dam that has created the artificial lake Lalla Takerkoust.
Near to the Pasarel dam, in the village of Dolni Pasarel, is located the " St. Peter and Pavel " monastery.
Near Nevinnomyssk there is a dam to supply water to the Nevinnomyssk channel.
Near the city of Sambalpur, it is dammed by the largest earthen dam in the world, the Hirakud Dam.
Near downtown McMinnville is a dam formerly utilized by the city as an electric power source ; it was supplanted by the Tennessee Valley Authority system, as the small amount ( by modern standards ) of electricity it was capable of producing makes it impracticable to man and maintain by modern standards.
Noyyal contains two major dam Orathuppalayam ( Near Chennimalai, Tirupur District ) and Aathupalayam Dam ( Near Vellakoil in Karur district ) commissioned in the aim of irrigating about 20, 000 acres of land in Tirupur and Karur districts.
Near Gobichettipalayam, the Kodiveri dam feeds the Arakkankottai and Thadappalli canals constructed for agricultural purposes.
Near its base was Conlon's Swamp, which reappears in vestigial form after heavy rainfall although now largely displaced by a farm dam.
Near the dam site, there is also a campground maintained by the Bureau of Land Management that showcases a number of prehistoric petroglyphs, indicating human involvement in the region long predating Western influence.
Near the dam on the southeast side of the reservoir is an open bell-mouth spillway, in diameter.
Near the dam, the Government of Tamil Nadu has constructed an Agricultural Research Station for researching the growing of a variety of crops, including rice, sorghum, blackgram, cowpea and cotton.
Near the town of Senise, a dam on the river was built in 1970-1982, tha largest in Europe built with earth.
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" Near the end of his life, he fictionalized this experience in his book New Connecticut, originally circulated only among friends before its publication in 1881.
However, the collapse of the Near Eastern trading system pointed to a flaw: in an era where there was no place that was safe to store value, the value of a circulating medium could only be as sound as the forces that defended that store.
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.
Near Earth most of the ship's 1500 passengers are killed by meteors, and only two men and six women land in a lifeboat and become the ancestors of humanity.
Near the Palm House is a building known as " Museum No. 1 " ( even though it is the only museum on the site ), which was designed by Decimus Burton and opened in 1857.
) Near the Great Sand Dunes, where only camping is available, the Great Sand Dunes Lodge and the Nature Conservancy's Zapata Ranch are recommended for lodging.
Although the field emerged from European disciplines of Kulturgeschichte and Geistesgeschichte, the historical study of ideas has engaged not only western intellectual traditions, but others as well including, but not limited to, those in the Far East, Near East and Africa.
Near Fiddown along the River Suir it consists of a long narrow island of marsh / woodland covered in willow scrub and bordered by reed swamps-it is the only known site of its type in Ireland.
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.
Near the coast, temperatures exceed on only 5 days a year.
This is a particularly significant achievement given that SOAS is the only top-ranked department to specialize, more or less exclusively, in the peoples and diasporas of Africa, Asia and the Near and Middle East.
Nonetheless the site now contains the only remains of an Assyrian siege ramp in the Near East.
Near this cave is the pyramidal rock islet of Am Buachaille (' The Herdsman '), a pile of basalt columns fully seen only at low tide.
" The Old Testament is affirming that there is only one God, over and against all of the polytheistic religions in the Ancient Near East.
In the Near East and other parts of the region, eventually axes of this sort are often wielded by male divinities and appear to become symbols of the thunderbolt, but in Crete, unlike the Near East, this axe is never held by a male divinity, only by female divinities and her priestesses.
Near the height of his radio fame ( 1933 ) he founded his own short-lived radio network the Amalgamated Broadcasting System, which lasted only five weeks, nearly destroying the comedian.
In text mode, the printer was logic-seeking, meaning it would print with the head moving in both directions while it would print only in one direction for graphics and Near Letter Quality.
Near the end of the story he confesses to Sophie that he is a real coward and the only way he can get himself to do something he really doesn't want to is to tell himself that he won't do it.
Near the end of the 1958 legislative session, this group demanded a special session to deal with the need for more money for schools and welfare programs, but Chandler refused to call the session when the liberals would not agree to pass only the measures he put before them.
It was only in the ninth or tenth millennium BCE that the animal became popular in the Near East.
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 the fort is one of seven surviving Roman amphitheatres in the United Kingdom and one of only two in Roman Wales ( the other being at Isca Augusta or Roman Caerleon ).
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