Near the center of the coast lies Little Harbor, a large inlet divided from the ocean by Beach Island.

The Beach Stone-curlew is classified as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

* On Tomales Bay: Echa-kolum, Shotommo-wi ( near the mouth of San Antonio Creek ), Sakloki ( opposite Tomales Point, Dillon Beach area ), Utumia ( Near present-day town of Tomales.

Near Mar Chiquita Beach

* Kittery Beach — Near northeast boundary of Base, named for the supply ship which for many years brought provisions to the Station.

Near sunrise on 3 February, there were no reports of fatalities or injuries in Mission Beach.

Near latitude 20 degrees south, Airlie Beach, Proserpine and the nearby Whitsunday Islands enjoy a tropical climate and lifestyle.

Near San Antonio, Texas, the company opened Jet Aviation Engineering Services to support its own completions facilities in Basel, Switzerland and Palm Beach, Florida and to provide services to third-party modification centers.

Here he painted ' Boats on the Beach Near Naples ', where fishing crafts lie at anchor in the calm, shimmering waters with the twin peaks of the mountain smoking and flaming behind.

Near its eastern end at the Intracoastal Waterway, with Boca Raton to the north and Deerfield Beach to the south, it departs from its straight course to go around several curves, but the county boundary continues to follow it at this point.

Near Kayenta, Arizona, Jonathan Haas of the Field Museum in Chicago has been studying a group of Ancient Pueblo villages that relocated from the canyons to the high mesa tops during the late 13th century.

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 )

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.

Most ancient cultures have had conceptions of a flat Earth, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period ( early centuries AD ) and China until the 17th century.

Near Port Stanley, there is an Indian village dating from the 16th century known as the Southwold Earthworks where as many as 800 Neutral Indians once lived ; the archaeological remains include double earth walls winding around the grass – covered perimeter.

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.

By virtue of its proximity to Egypt, the Sudan participated in the wider history of the Near East inasmuch as it was Christianized by the 6th century, and Islamized in the 7th.

Used since the 11th century BC in the ancient Near East, the 4th century BC in Europe and also in antiquity in the Far East, siege towers were of unwieldy dimensions and, like trebuchets, were therefore mostly constructed on site of the siege.

In the Near East, the first half of this century was dominated by the Neo-Babylonian or Chaldean empire, which had risen to power late in the previous century after successfully rebelling against Assyrian rule.

The Assyrian Empire continued to dominate the Near East during this century, exercising formidable power over neighbors like Babylon and Egypt.

About a century before the middle of the millennium, bands of Indo-European invaders came from the Central Asia plains and swept through the Near East.

Near the end of the 19th century, it was typical for the bride-to-be to receive a sewing thimble rather than an engagement ring.

This period followed the Bronze Age collapse in the Near East, and the century saw the Early Iron Age take hold there.

The oldest testimony of chariot warfare in the ancient Near East is the Old Hittite Anitta text ( 18th century BC ), which mentions 40 teams of horses ( 40? Í-IM-DÌ ANŠE. KUR. RA < sup >? I. A </ sup >) at the siege of Salatiwara.

The armor described in 1 Samuel 17 is typical of Greek armor of the sixth century BC rather than of Philistines armor of the tenth century, and narrative formulae such as the settlement of battle by single combat between champions is characteristic of the Homeric epics ( the Iliad ) but not of the ancient Near East.

The species originated in tropical Asia and spread through the Near East in Roman times before reaching Europe by the 1st century and spreading with Europeans across the world.

The black rat originated in India and Southeast Asia, and spread to the Near East and Egypt, and then throughout the Roman Empire, reaching England as early as the 1st century.

* 10th century BC – Glass production begins in ancient Near East

The 2nd century writer Lucian gave an account of the Greek Deucalion in De Dea Syria that seems to refer more to the Near Eastern flood legends: in his version, Deucalion ( whom he also calls Sisythus ) took his children, their wives, and pairs of animals with him on the ark, and later built a great temple in Manbij ( northern Syria ), on the site of the chasm that received all the waters ; he further describes how pilgrims brought vessels of sea water to this place twice a year, from as far as Arabia and Mesopotamia, to commemorate this event.

Near the end of the sixteenth century the town fell under Habsburg control, but Henry IV of France recaptured it.

Near the end of the Han Dynasty in the beginning of the 3rd century, Jingzhou was ruled by regional warlord Liu Biao.

" Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin 50 ( 2005 ): 15-26.

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.

Desde el reinado de Tuthmosis III hasta el de Akhenaton Free Access Ancient Near East Monographs, Volume 2. Buenos Aires, Society of Biblical Literature-CEHAO.

In 1882, the fields known as Far and Near Townsend Close went on to be bought by Kirby Muxloe Land Society.

Barrekette, Olga ; Proceedings of the Conference on International Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict ( New York, October 21, 1990 ), Sponsored by The Louis D. Brandeis Society of Zionist Lawyers, Center for Near East Policy Research, 1993, ISBN 0-9640145-0-5.

His paper with PhD student Adam Newcomer, " Near term implications of a ban on new coal-fired power plants in the US " was cited as one of the top environmental policy papers of 2009 by the American Chemical Society.

" London: School of Oriental and African Studies, Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, and The Society for Libyan Studies.

Near the Jewel Box is the Colonial Daughter Fountain, donated by the Missouri Society of Colonial Daughters in 1947.

* 2002, one of five researchers awarded a " Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grant ", by the Planetary Society.

He has also collaborated with geneticists in seeking to correlate linguistic with genetic findings ( e. g., Sarah A. Tishkoff, Floyd A. Reed, F. R. Friedlaender, Christopher Ehret, Alessia Ranciaro, et al., “ The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans ,” Science 324, 22 May 2009 ) and in developing mathematical tools for dating linguistic history ( e. g., Andrew Kitchen, Christopher Ehret, Shiferew Assefa, and Connie Mulligan, " Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East ," Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, July 2009 ).

* Abstract of Near and far: banal national identity and the press in Scotland, by Alex Law, University of Abertay Dundee, Media, Culture and Society, Vol.

The Austrian Oriental Society, founded in 1959 to foster cultural relations with the Near East, is formally named ' Österreichische Orient-Gesellschaft Hammer-Purgstall ' in recognition of Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall's accomplishments.

" The Anatolian Myth of Illuyanka ," Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 14 ( 1982 ) pp 11 – 25.

London: School of Oriental and African Studies, Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, and The Society for Libyan Studies.

Near the end of his first semester, he was elected member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Mr. Elias Bitar became the second principal in 1987. Mr. Paul Oueis was the third principal in 2001. Pierre Michel Rahal was entrusted with the administration of the school in 2011. The Baptist Near East Mission recently transferred the ownership of the school to the Lebanese Society for Educational and Social Development ( LSESD ).

The function halls here are popular for weddings and other parties like SMR Jayalaxmi Gardens ( RTC Colony ), Teachers CO-Operative Society Community Hall ( Teachers Colony ), Anubhav Gardens ( Hanuman Temple near RTA ), Jooluri Vajramma Kalyana Mandapam ( Currently Under Renovation ), Modern Function Plaza ( Lalbazar ), Leela Gardens ( Near Teachers Colony ), Mahatma Gandhi Community Hall ( Main Rd Lalbazar )