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 )

Currently, the LDS Church has a Jerusalem Center in Israel, where students focus their study on Near Eastern history, culture, language, and the Bible.

Near the Center they re-created, Soft Goods or Banded Rock Mountain.

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.

He is a member of several think-tanks including the Hudson Institute, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy ( WINEP ) Board of Advisors, the Center for Security Policy ( CSP ), the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research ( as a resident fellow ), the neoconservative Project for the New American Century ( PNAC ), and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs ( JINSA ).

; NIRSPEC: The Near Infrared Spectrometer studies very high redshift radio galaxies, the motions and types of stars located near the Galactic Center, the nature of brown dwarfs, the nuclear regions of dusty starburst galaxies, active galactic nuclei, interstellar chemistry, stellar physics, and Solar System science.

Ali Ahmad Jalali ( born 1940 ) is an Afghan American and a Distinguished Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies of the United States ' National Defense University.

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.

Near the Campus Center is the student-housing complex.

** Fast Stars Near the Galactic Center

* The Musical Legacy of Al-Andalus an interview between Banning Eyre ( Afropop Worldwide ) and Dwight Reynolds, Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies, and Chair of Islamic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Near the Marshall Center is the American Armed Forces Recreation Centers ( Edelweiss Lodge and Resort ) in Garmisch that serves U. S. and NATO military and their families.

After leaving his position as Chief of Staff, Ya ' alon has spent time in the think tank Washington Institute for Near East Policy and became a Senior Fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center Institute for International and Middle East Studies.

Near the Yasuda Culture Center ( 安田文化センター ) lies the only pub ( izakaya 居酒屋 ) in the town, Manryo ( 萬領 ).

2009 view from Lake Shore Drive of Chicago River, the south border ( right ) of the Near North Side, Chicago | Near North Side and Streeterville and north border ( left ) of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center ( with: en: Trump International Hotel and Tower ( Chicago ) | Trump International Hotel and Tower at jog in the river in the center )

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.

* The Miracle of the Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies-Slideshow of the construction of the center and protests.

Near the gymnasium is the Catholic Center.

Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. () is a leading online travel company headquartered in the Citigroup Center in Near West Side, Chicago, Illinois.

* Illinois Medical District, a neighborhood in the Near West Side community area of Chicago, Illinois alternatively known as Medical Center

Near the Magnolia Bridge on 15th is the Center for Sex Positive Culture.

* Minnesota Rag: Corruption, Yellow Journalism, and the Case That Saved Freedom of the Press, Fred W. Friendly ( University of Minnesota Press ) 1982 A history of the Near case.

Near the end of Yellow Mama ’ s life, in about 2001, electrocution was only used as a primary method of execution in Nebraska and Alabama.

His other hits include " Near You ", " Till ", " The Impossible Dream ", " Yellow Bird ", " Maria ", and " The Theme from Somewhere in Time ".

Near the end of the Second World War, Allied forces discovered that the SS had compiled lists of people slated for immediate arrest during the invasion of Britain in the abandoned Operation Sea Lion, and Wells was included in the alphabetical list on the same page of " The Black Book " as Rebecca West.

Post – World War I Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Near East had borders carved out by the Allies that left many of the new states in that region unsatisfied due to minority populations and conflicting historical claims.

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

Near the end of World War II, the United States military invaded the Mariana Islands on June 15, 1944, beginning with the Battle of Saipan, which ended on July 9 with the Japanese commander committing seppuku ( a traditional Japanese form of ritual suicide ).

His books of poetry include Poems 1913 and 1914 ( 1914 ); Poems Translated from the French ( 1914 ); Three Poems ( 1916 ); The Barn ( 1916 ); The Silver Bird of Herndyke Mill ; Stane Street ; The Gods of the World Beneath, ( 1916 ); The Harbingers ( 1916 ); Pastorals ( 1916 ); The Waggoner and Other Poems ( 1920 ); The Shepherd, and Other Poems of Peace and War ( 1922 ); Old Homes ( 1922 ); To Nature: New Poems ( 1923 ); Dead Letters ( 1923 ); Masks of Time: A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative ( 1925 ); Japanese Garland ( 1928 ); Retreat ( 1928 ); Winter Nights: A Reminiscence ( 1928 ); Near and Far: New Poems ( 1929 ); A Summer's Fancy ( 1930 ); To Themis: Poems on Famous Trials ( 1931 ); Constantia and Francis: An Autumn Evening, ( 1931 ); Halfway House: A Miscellany of New Poems, ( 1932 ); Choice or Chance: New Poems ( 1934 ); Verses: To H. R. H. The Duke of Windsor, ( 1936 ); An Elegy and Other Poems ( 1937 ); On Several Occasions ( 1938 ); Poems, 1930-1940 ( 1940 ); Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ); After the Bombing, and Other Short Poems ( 1949 ); Eastward: A Selection of Verses Original and Translated ( 1950 ); Records of Friendship ( 1950 ); A Hong Kong House ( 1959 ); Poems on Japan ( 1967 ).

For much of the Middle Ages, the Islamic Caliphate ( centred in the Near East ) often had a monopoly over much of the trade conducted across the Old World ( see Muslim age of discovery for more details ).

Near the end of his first term, Mulroney gave a formal apology and a $ 300 million compensation package to the families of the 22, 000 Japanese Canadians who had been divested of their property and interned during World War II.

Near the site there is now a museum, and monuments of remembrance of those transported and killed during World War II.

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.

Near the end of World War II, thousands of new jobs were created with the 1944 construction of a Naval Ammunition Depot across the Ouachita at Shumaker.

Near the end of World War II, a branch camp for German and Italian prisoners of war from Camp Rupert, near Buhl, Idaho, was established.

Near the end of World War I, Sequim became a stop for a railway which passed through from Port Angeles to Port Townsend, built primarily to carry wood products from the forests of the western Olympic Peninsula.

* Near the beach is a well-preserved section of the World War II Atlantic Wall.

Near the end of World War II, in 1944, the first of Gumbinnen's 24, 000 residents began to flee from the advancing Red Army, which was drawing close.

Near New Street Station was the Old Market Hall which had been damaged by bombing in World war II.

Near the end of World War II, there were two bombing raids carried out against the town: the first on 31 March 1945, the second a few days later.

While other New Orleans parades might have themes like " Foods of the World " or " Broadway Show Tunes ", Comus would present themes like " Serpent Deities of the Ancient Near East ".

Near the end of World War II, German troops destroyed all bridges crossing the Lusatian Neisse.

Near the end of World War I, Italy captured the Austrian territories of Trentino and Venezia Giulia.

* Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, German officer in the Near East campaigns of World War I.

Near the end of World War II, last-ditch ersatz models were being made in various cost-cutting feature variations with the goal of cheaply bolstering the Imperial Armed Forces ; for example, the ovoid bulb-shaped bolt of earlier runs were replaced by a smaller and utilitarian cylindrical shape, the handguard on the barrel was omitted, and crude fixed sights were fitted.

Like Ballard's earlier short story, " The Dead Time " ( published in the anthology Myths of the Near Future ), it is essentially fiction but draws extensively on Ballard's experiences in World War II.

Near the mouth of the river, near Juffure, is James Island, a place used in the slave trade which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Near East Since the First World War: A History to 1995.