* June 15, 763 BC: A solar eclipse at this date is used to fix the chronology of the Ancient Near East.

The date of the sack of Babylon by the Hittite king Mursilis I is considered crucial to the various calculations of the early chronology of the ancient Near East, since both a solar and a lunar eclipse are said to have occurred in the month of Sivan that year, according to ancient records.

* 763 BC — June 15 — A solar eclipse at this date ( in month Sivan ) is used to fix the chronology of the Ancient Near East.

* Assyriologist George Smith discovers an inscription recording a solar eclipse in the month of Sivan on British Museum Tablet K51, which he is able to link to 15 June 763 BC, the cornerstone of ancient Near Eastern chronology.

Near the small town Goseck archaeologists discovered in 1999 the oldest solar observatory in Europe, beating Stonehenge by more than 2000 years.

The crew of STS-109 successfully upgraded the Hubble Space Telescope ’ s systems over the course of five consecutive EVAs, leaving it with a new power control unit, improved solar arrays, the new Advanced Camera for Surveys ( ACS ), and an experimental refrigeration unit for cooling the dormant Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer ( NICMOS ).

The solar chimney has been in use for centuries, particularly in the Middle east and Near East by the Persians, as well as in Europe by the Romans.

Mursili's Year 10 solar eclipse is of great importance for the absolute dating of the Hittite Empire within the chronology of the Ancient Near East.

* George Smith discovers an inscription recording a solar eclipse in the month of Sivan on British Museum Tablet K51, which he is able to link to 15 June 763 BC., the cornerstone of ancient Near Eastern chronology.

Near the end of the decade, some comic science fiction shows were popular: 3rd Rock from the Sun, and the animated series Futurama.

Male examples include the ancient Near Eastern and Greek deities Baal, Melqart, Adonis, Eshmun, Attis Tammuz, Asclepius, Orpheus, as well as Ra the Sun god with its fusion with Osiris / Orion, Jesus, Zalmoxis, Dionysus, and Odin.

* Lamotta Near End Of Trail Lewiston Daily Sun, January 3, 1953

The headlines in the Jackson, Tennessee, Sun read: " FATAL WRECK-Engineer Casey Jones, of This City, Killed Near Canton, Miss.

* April 15 — A test of the Near Sun Hibernation Mode ( NSHM ) was successfully concluded.

* Venus, Near Neighbor of the Sun

Near the conclusion of the battle, he managed to see through Sun Wukong's disguise ( as a temple ) using his third-eye.

It was discovered by the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research ( LINEAR ) system in orbit around the Sun on December 20, 2003.

Though spacially within the Near Umbra, the Shard Realms of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars remain beyond the Horizon.

The traditional homeland of the Rai extends across Solukhumbu, Okhaldhunga ( Wallo Kirat or Near Kirat ), home of the Nachhiring, Bahing, Wambule, Dumi subgroups ); Khotang, Bhojpur and the Udayapur Districts ( Majh Kirat or Central Kirat ), home of Bantawa, Chamling, in the northeastern hilly region of Nepal, west of the Arun River in the Sun Kosi River watershed.

Near the centre of Linyi city is a museum which houses some original bamboo strips from the Sun Tzu era.

Near the beginning of the film, the submarine is found " parked " on top of a pyramid whose form was inspired by the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacán.

Near the port the Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle factory is located which produces Daewoo trucks for the domestic and the exporting market.

Harbison also produces some evidence pointing to a later date and a different use: a letter by one Richard Pococke who visited the " oratory " in 1758, two years after it was " discovered " by Charles Smith: " Near this building they show a grave with a head at the cross of it and call it the tomb of the Giant ; the tradition is that Griffith More was buried there, & as they call'd a chapel, so probably it was built by him or his family at their burial place.

Near Agness, the river produces large catches of immature steelhead known as " half-pounders " that return from the ocean to the river in August in large schools.

Near the Dutch-Belgian border, in Baarle-Nassau, Zuidam produces traditional jenevers and Dutch liquors.

Infineon Technologies ( formerly Siemens ) licenced MIFARE from Mikron in 1994 and developed and today produces various dervatives based on MIFARE technology including 1K memory and various microcontrollers with MIFARE emulations, including devices for use in USIM with Near Field Communication.

Near Sedgwick, the river passes through a rock gorge which produces a number of low waterfalls.

Near the smelter the Aluminium Powder Company ( ALPOCO ) produces aluminium powder, which is used in pastes, pigments, chemicals, metallurgy, refractory, propulsion, pyrotechnics, spray deposition and powder metallurgy.

Near the location of the present train station, the ruins of a settlement from the Bronze Age ( about 1000 BC ) have been excavated.

Visiting Hill Top every chance she got, Potter ’ s books written during this period ( such as The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, about the local shop in Near Sawrey and The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, a wood mouse ) reflect her increasing participation in village life and her delight in country living.

Many Near Eastern religions include a story about a battle between a divine being and a dragon or other monster representing chaos — a theme found, for example, in the Enuma Elish.

Near the town of Sillamäe, site of a former uranium enrichment plant, about 1, 200 tons of uranium and about 750 tons of thorium had been dumped into a reservoir on the shore of the Gulf of Finland.

Near Lima, Drake captured a Spanish ship laden with 25, 000 pesos of Peruvian gold, amounting in value to 37, 000 ducats of Spanish money ( about £ 7m by modern standards ).

This period of religious history begins with the invention of writing about 5, 000 years ago ( 3000 BCE ) in the Near East.

Near the stern, about halfway down the starboard topsides, was a rounded wooden block about 150 mm in diameter and 100 mm high, with a central hole for a rope.

The issue contained contributions from various scholars paying tribute to her, with papers dealing with archaeology, fairies, Near Eastern religious symbols, Greek folksongs, but notably not about witchcraft.

Near the end of World War II, the city of about 340, 000 became capital of the Province of Magdeburg.

The early inhabitants of Europe developed pottery at about the same time as in the Near East, circa 5500 – 4500 BCE.

According to former CIA Near East Division Chief James Chritchfield, after al-Bakr and Saddam seized power in 1968, " America slowly developed, not a hostility, but enormous reservations about the ability of the Ba ' ath to constructively bring Iraq along.

* June 15 – Near Earth Asteroid 2002 MN misses the planet by, about 1 / 3 the distance to the moon.

Proso millet appears to have reached Europe not long after its appearance in Georgia, first appearing in east and central Europe ; however, the grain needed a few thousand more years to cross into Italy, Greece, and Iran, and the earliest evidence for its cultivation in the Near East is a find in the ruins of Nimrud, Iraq dated to about 700 BC.

It is believed to be about 5, 600 years old, and to have arrived with the Neolithic expansion from the Near East.

During this holiday he toured a number of archaeological sites in the two countries, coming to the opinion that much of what he had written in The Most Ancient Near East was outdated, and so he went on to produce a new book on the subject, New Light on the Most Ancient Near East ( 1935 ), in which he applied his Marxist-influenced ideas about the economy to his conclusions.

" Near the end of the Brief Lives story arc, Desire says of Dream, " He's stuffy, stupid, and thinks he knows everything, and there's just something about him that gets on my nerves.

Near the center of this square is the pitcher's circle, and within the circle is the " rubber ", a small flat rectangular piece of rubber about a foot and a half in length.

Near the end of his term in the Senate, petitioners asked Congress to prevent the handling and delivery of mail on Sunday because it violated biblical principles about the Sabbath.

In the Near East, in southern Mesopotamia in particular, cultivation of emmer wheat began to decline in the Early Bronze Age, from about 3000 BC, and barley became the standard cereal crop.

According to some Lemba claims, they had male ancestors who were Near Eastern Jews who left Judea about 2, 500 years ago and settled in a place called Senna in the Arabian peninsula, and later still, migrating into North East Africa.

Near to the old Rectory and close to Hanwell spring is a large stone of about a ton in weight.

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.