Near the beginning of the first book of the Elements, Euclid gives five postulates ( axioms ) for plane geometry, stated in terms of constructions ( as translated by Thomas Heath ):

With the emergence of monarchy at the beginning of Iron Age II the king promoted his own family god, Yahweh, as the god of the kingdom, but beyond the royal court religion continued to be both polytheistic and family-centered, as it was also for other societies in the Ancient Near East.

The widespread use of iron weapons which replaced bronze weapons rapidly disseminated throughout the Near East ( southwest Asia ) by the beginning of the 1st millennium BC.

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 ).

However the idea of immortality which appears in the syncretistic religions of Near East did not exist in the Eleusinian mysteries at the very beginning.

Near the end of the recovery, the rower squares the blade ( rotates the blade to perpendicular to the water ), and then repeats the stroke again, beginning with the catch.

Near the beginning of the tale, the narrator says he would be " mad indeed " if he should expect a reader to believe the story, implying that he has already been accused of madness.

Near the beginning of A Matter of Loaf and Death, Wigan is referenced on the newspaper Wallace is reading, and near the end, while looking for somewhere appropriate to dispose of a bomb, Gromit sees the Yorkshire border from their home ( a joke referencing the rivalry between Lancashire and Yorkshire ).

Near the end of the 2nd millennium BCE, new waves of barbarians, this time riding on horseback, wholly destroyed the Bronze Age world, and were to be followed by waves of social changes that marked the beginning of different times.

Near the beginning of the essay, Derrida argued:

Pewter was first used around the beginning of the Bronze Age in the Near East.

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

" Near the beginning of his administration, Nixon ordered Mitchell to implement school desegregation in the South to comply with court rulings largely ignored by three previous administrations.

Near the beginning of the 20th century, it was shown that a result of Fermat's little theorem could be used to test for primality.

Near the beginning of the Warring States Period there is a shift from chariots to massed infantry, possibly associated with the invention of the crossbow.

Near the end of Ptolemy's reign, the value of Egyptian coins dropped to about fifty percent of its value at the beginning of his reign.

Near the entrance of the cathedral, a rich merchant, Bartolomeu Joanes, built a funerary chapel for himself in the beginning of the 14th century.

Near the end of Armada, the Autobots and Decepticons join forces to defeat the planet-devouring Unicron, and the beginning of Energon sees them as uneasy allies.

Near the beginning of the 18th century, a manuscript of Perotti ( 1430 – 1480 ), archbishop of Siponto ( Manfredonia, in Apulia ), was discovered at Parma containing sixty-four fables of Phaedrus, of which some thirty were previously unknown.

Near the beginning of the Christian era, the Latin alphabet had already undergone its principal changes, and had become a definite system.

New Chronology is an alternative Chronology of the ancient Near East developed by English Egyptologist David Rohl and other researchers beginning with A Test of Time: The Bible-from Myth to History in 1995.

Near the end of the Swedish rule the defence structures of Narva were greatly improved – beginning in 1680s, an outstanding system of bastions, planned by the renowned Swedish military engineer Erik Dahlbergh, was built around the town.

Near the beginning of each episode of The New Yankee Workshop, Abram recites a standard monologue about safety.

Near the end it is heard in the strings in stretto ( overlapping entries, a new one beginning before the last has ended ).

Near the beginning, Alice discovers and reads " Jabberwocky ".

Near the old Forbes Field where he began his pro career the city of Pittsburgh has renamed a street in his honor.

Near the end of his career, McLaglen was nominated again, this time for Best Supporting Actor, for his role opposite John Wayne in The Quiet Man ( 1952 ).

Near the close of Memling's career he was increasingly supported by his workshop.

June, described by Guitar Player as the hottest female guitar player in the music industry, has had a career as a producer for artists including Holly Near, Cris Williamson and Bitch and Animal.

Near the start of the 2010-11 season, Thornton scored the fourth hat trick of his NHL career against Martin Brodeur in a 5-2 win over the New Jersey Devils.

Near the beginning of the 2009 – 10 season, Kovalchuk scored the 300th and 301st goal of his NHL career in a 4 – 2 win during the St. Louis Blues ' home opener on October 8, 2009.

In a career consisting of four decades, she worked with performers across several genres and generations, folk, opera, pop, rock, including Lucio Dalla, Nana Mouskouri, Maria Farantouri, Andrea Bocelli, Holly Near, Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, Milton Nascimento, Fito Páez, Caetano Veloso, Joan Manuel Serrat, Chico Buarque, Gal Costa, Gian Marco, Konstantin Wecker, Lourdes Pérez, Nilda Fernández, Pata Negra, David Broza, Franco Battiato, Luz Casal, Ismael Serrano, Charly Garcia, Joan Baez, Luciano Pavarotti, Shakira, Lila Downs, Julieta Venegas, Martha Argerich, Francis Cabrel and Sting.

Near the start of his radio career, during World War II, Young attempted to enlist in first the Royal Canadian Navy, then the Canadian Army, but was rejected by both due to his poor health.

Near the end of his career he played one of the main roles in Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry ( 1955 ).

Near the end of his career, he provided the voice of " Manny ", a praying mantis in the animated feature A Bug's Life.

Near the end of his teaching career Gifford started to contribute regular astronomy articles to the Evening Post, one of Wellington's daily newspapers, which later turned into an influential column.

During her long career in folk and protest music, Holly Near has worked with a wide array of musicians, including Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Mercedes Sosa, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Meg ( Shambhavi ) Christian, Cris Williamson, Linda Tillery, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Harry Belafonte, and many others, as well as the Chilean exile group Inti-Illimani.

Dore Gold's political career began in 1985 when Gold served as senior research associate at Tel Aviv University's Moshe Dayan Centre for Near East Studies.

Near the end of his career he received the Copley Medal, the most prestigious honorary award in British science.

Near the end of his game development career he wrote Monopoly for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Bart's Nightmare for Super NES.

Near the end of the inter-war period about a year before the Cylon surprise attack and subsequent nuclear holocaust, the Admiralty of the Colonial Fleet sent a scouting mission into Cylon territory which resulted in the capture of the scout pilot ( and the effective ending of William Adama's military career ).

Near the end of his career, Kingman was honored with a one man exhibition of his art at the United Nations, New York.

Near the end of the most productive phase of his career, Baker received a knighthood, was elected to the Royal Academy, had conferred on him the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1927, and received honorary degrees from Witwatersrand and Oxford Universities.

He spent most of his career as a professor and chair in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations ( NELC ) of the University of Chicago, and was director of Chicago House and the Epigraphic Survey project of the Oriental Institute.

A career Near East Division officer, Hart's overseas postings included five years in India ; two years as a Chief of Station ( COS ) in the Persian Gulf ; a three year posting in Iran, before, during and after the Iranian Revolution ( where he was Chief of Station after the Shah fell and the American Embassy was overrun by Khomeini elements ); three years as COS Pakistan during the Soviet war in Afghanistan ; and COS, Germany in the period leading up to the collapse of Communism.

Near the end of its career, in 1968, reflecting the dwindling passenger

Near the end of his career he was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon.

Near the end of his career, he oversaw construction of the 7, 800-seat arena that bears his name, Johnson Gymnasium, which opened in 1957.

Near the beginning of his career, he worked with Andrew Weatherall on remixes of Meat Beat Manifesto, remixed for Saint Etienne, U2 and others.