There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

The destruction of cities by foreign invaders, and its resulting catastrophic suffering, unfortunately, was very common in the ancient Near East and, therefore, we can observe examples of the lament form / genre concerning destroyed cities and temples from extra-biblical sources, particularly from early Sumerian Literature dating to the late third and early second millennia BC.

In 2002 the IUCN, listed the western / lowland species as Near Threatened.

Famous cinéma vérité / direct cinema films include Les Raquetteurs, Showman, Salesman, Near Death, The Children Were Watching, and Grey Gardens.

The most recent study on the ante-Aesopic fables or the fables in ancient Near Eastern languages by Akimoto discovers the rich fable traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia ; for example, the Ninurta-uballitsu Assyrian fable collection which is the oldest known fable collection with the compiler's autograph and the completion date 883 BCE, the Hurrian-Hittite bilingual fable collections are embedded in a long myth and the storyteller tells after each fable his / her own moral.

* In Die Erde is nah: die Marsexpedition ( 1970 ), by Ludek Pesek, published in English as The Earth is Near ( 1973 ), a crew of twenty men undertake the first manned mission to Mars, and after landing in the wrong area due to computer malfunction and / or human error, have to cope with vicious sand storms, and a long trek undertaken in vehicles to their original intended area of exploration.

Through Somali and Arab traders, Indian / Chinese cinnamon was also exported for far higher prices to North Africa, the Near East and Europe, which made the cinnamon trade a very profitable revenue maker, especially for the Somali merchants through whose hands the large quantities were shipped across the ancient sea and land routes.

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

* How Near Heaven 3 / 3 / 95

Near the eastern shore of the island of Gades / Gadeira ( modern Cádiz, just beyond the strait ) Strabo describes the westernmost temple of Tyrian Heracles, the god with whom Greeks associated the Phoenician and Punic Melqart, by interpretatio graeca.

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.

Roman dragons evolved from serpentine Greek ones, combined with the dragons of the Near East, in the mix that characterized the hybrid Greek / Eastern Hellenistic culture.

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.

Their music and lyrics are inspired by Ancient Egyptian / Near Eastern mysticism, history, religion, and art, as well as stories by H. P. Lovecraft.

Near Seaton's Farm is Ben Halls camping and picnic area with well designed fireplace / barbecues, large enough to permit the use of camp ovens, your own barbecue or for an open fire as well as having its own BBQ plate.

* American singer / songwriter Holly Near was born in Ukiah.

Batu Caves may also be reached by bus 11 / 11d from Bangkok Bank Terminus ( Near to Puduraya Terminus ) or bus U6 from Titiwangsa.

Near the entrance to the hall is a bronze plaque commemorating the services and life of Father Thomas Connors, a bi-lingual French / English priest from the Our Lady of La Salette Order Missionaries of La Salette, who was assigned to St. Joseph's parish in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Near to Airport Niederrhein / Weeze ( EDLV ).

Near the river are the Deer Creek / Bryson Paddock Sites where archaeologists have excavated the ruins of two prominent 18th century Wichita Indian villages.

Near the Lorton VRE commuter rail station on Lorton Station Boulevard are: Wells Fargo, Subway, Fireside Grill, Pane e Vino, K & C Pharmacy, dry cleaner, Music & Arts, salon, Lasani Kabob, FedEx / Kinkos, and other shops.

Near the current location of Meadowbrook Bridge, Hancock was told by his guides that the land was known as “ Hyas Kloshe Illahee ”, or “ good / productive land ”.

* Near the Humber in Yorkshire / Lincolnshire

Near the end of these sessions, in October 1972, Wings recorded the theme song to the James Bond film Live and Let Die, which reunited McCartney with Beatles producer / arranger George Martin.

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 the present-day town of Larino in the Molise ( then called Larinum ), Hannibal had taken up position in a town called Gerione.

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 town centre is the rebuilt St George's church.

* Near to Hawarden in the town of Mancot, there is a small hospital named after Catherine Gladstone.

Near to the town are Anne Hathaway's Cottage at Shottery, the home of Shakespeare's wife's family prior to her marriage, and Mary Arden's House ( Palmer's Farm ), the family home of his mother.

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

Near the town is the home of world show jumping champion Ian Millar and Millar Brooke Farm where his great horse Big Ben ( 1976 – 1999 ) is buried.

Near the northeast corner of town, Route 8A grazes the border ( at which point it is combined with Route 116 ), with a small neighborhood lying around Windsor Pond.

Near the center of town, Ashfield Lake feeds into the South River, and is a recreational site.

Near the center of town, the road also junctions with, and shares a short, concurrency with Route 8A.

Near the southwest corner of town is Negus Mountain, along the western ridge, and along the eastern ridge lies Todd Mountain and Adams Mountain, the highest point in town.

Near the center of town lies the junction of Route 32 and Route 122, with Route 32 entering from Athol and Route 122 entering from New Salem.

Near where the town is settled is the Continental Divide which provided good drainage resulting in good logging because the land wasn't wet.

Near the town Avesta is a park of European bison.

Near the collieries, Tower began to develop a small town, which was named Tower City when first surveyed.

Near the end of the century the council noted that the schoolhouse was overcrowded and needed improvement, but because of the poor state of the town ’ s finances, the magistrates could do little to help at that time.

Lachish (; ; ) was an ancient Near East town located at the site of modern Tell ed-Duweir in the Shephelah, a region between Mount Hebron and the maritime plain of Philistia ( Joshua 10: 3, 5 ; 12: 11 ).

Near the rural community of Martock, the river enters a broad glacial river valley forming a ria ) where it becomes tidal, creating an estuary for its remaining route to the Minas Basin several kilometres downriver from the town of Hantsport.

Near the town lies the A4 highway ( E40 European route ), which in a near future will connect Kraków to Ukraine.

Near the end of the strip's run, she and Wal become engaged, but at the last minute she dumps Wal to move out of town with a male stripper.

Near Kitengela town is the Maasai Ostrich Park, a fairly popular tourist destination 7 km off the Nairobi-Arusha road.

Near the Village and Castle of Hövel, he build the Castle and town of Nienbrügge ( Novus Ponte ) on the Lippe riverbanks.