* District 9 ( 2009 ) Near the climax, the command module and an assortment of dirt and rocks were pulled towards the mother ship using a mildly illuminated array of tractor beams.

Near the climax of The Caves of Steel Elijah Baley makes a bitter comment to himself thinking that the First Law forbids a robot from harming a human being.

Near the climax of the film, Neo offers a deal with the Machines to get rid of Smith in exchange for Zion's safety, warning them that Smith is beyond their control and will eventually spread to the machine city, which will result in destruction of both mankind and machines.

Near the climax of The Matrix Reloaded, Neo meets the Architect face to face in a large oval-shaped room with two doors, whose walls are covered with television monitors.

Near the climax of the events of Secret Wars II, the Beyonder, angered at humanity and the entire plane of existence, travels to Hell and informs Mephisto of his plan to erase all existence contained in this universe.

The eight books in the series starting with the Tale of Hill Top Farm ( 2004 ) deal with her life in the Lake District and the village of Near Sawrey between 1905 and 1913.

Near the end of his life, Richard P. Feynman gave a series of lectures on QED intended for the lay public.

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

Near the end of the 2000s, Fox launched a few series that proved to be powerful hits in different respects.

Near the end of the series, Altena states that " Les Soldats " has been consumed by the very greed they once swore to undo, and thus had become like the world itself.

Near the end of the war, the series of new Fallschirmjäger divisions extended to over a dozen, with a concomitant reduction in quality in the higher-numbered units of the series.

Near the end of the series it's hinted that Veruca and Larry have a crush on each other.

Near the end of the series, it is revealed that there is a surgery which might either correct Minako's condition or kill her early.

Near the end of 2007, after several releases in the 0. 6. x series that included all known security fixes, version 1. 0 was released under the LGPL v2. 1, with libmpg123 branded as a full-featured replacement for mpglib.

The Assyrian Empire which had been the dominant force in the Near East for much of the period from the 14th Century BC began to unravel after the death of Ashurbanipal in 627 BC, descending into a series of bitter internal civil wars.

Near the end of the show, Cleese presents the Silly Walk, rendered on radio as a series of loud, slow footsteps.

In 1907, the Anglo-Russian Entente was agreed, which attempted to resolve a series of long-running disputes over Persia, Afghanistan and Tibet, as well as helping to address British fears about German expansion in the Near East.

Near the end of the Nickelodeon series, she defeated White in election as mayor.

This series has been broadcast in 36 countries, among them Germany ( Super RTL ), Belgium ( RTL TVI ), Canada ( Télé-Quebec ), Estonia ( ETV ), Spain ( Antena 3, Disney Channel, Toon Disney and TV3 ), Finland ( MTV3 ), Cyprus ( CyBC ), Greece ( Alter Channel ), Ireland ( RTÉ ), Italy ( Italia 1 ), Portugal ( Prisvideo ), Switzerland ( TSR ), Russia ( THT Network ), Hungary ( Minimax ), Slovenia ( RTV ), Morocco ( 2M Soreheads ), Turkey ( Yumurcak TV ), Mexico ( TV Azteca ), Brazil ( Rede Globo ), Venezuela ( RCTV ), Indonesia ( RCTI and B Channel ), Malaysia ( TV3 and TV9 ), the Africa Pansat ( CFI ), and Latin America ( MVS ), the Near East and Middle East ( TV5 ), ( E-Junior ), Vietnam ( HTV7 ), Thailand ( United Broadcasting Corporation ), South Korea ( EBS ) Iceland ( Uppeldi EHF ), and South Africa ( SABC ).

He is especially known for a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced during the 1840s from sketches he made during long tours of the region ( 1838 – 1840 ).

Near Harad later formed an alliance — or maybe even a coalition of some sort — with the Corsairs of Umbar, and was involved in a series of continual battles with Gondor over South Gondor or Harondor.

Near the beginning of the series, Achilles is established as an enemy of one of the main characters, Julian " Bean " Delphiki, another citizen of Rotterdam.

Near the end of the series all of the Taxxons on Earth chose to become large snakes and live in the Amazon, free of their uncontrollable hunger.

Near the beginning of the series, Tommy is kidnapped by Mesogog.

Near the series end, Eugene and Jimmy fire Alan without consulting Ellenor, creating a phenomenon known as a law firm divorce.

Near the end of the 5th season, in the episode " There's Only One Sydney Bristow " ( also the series ' 100th episode ), Tippin is kidnapped by Anna Espinosa and used as bait for Sydney.

Currently, the Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern collections are housed in a series of galleries in the Museum.

Near the end of the Walker series, Norris's character married his longtime girlfriend, an assistant district attorney played by Sheree J. Wilson, while Gilyard's character was given a girlfriend.

In 2009, Morrissey and a team of filmmakers ran a series of drama workshops for Palestinian refugee children in Beirut, Lebanon, in conjunction with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA ).

Near the end of his service he wrote that when the war was over he was going to buy two pups, name one of them `` Fall-in '' and the other `` Close-up '', and then shoot them both, `` and that will be the end of Fall-in and Close-up ''.

but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East -- which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities -- recognized only four??

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.

Octavian made another bold move in 44 BC when without official permission he appropriated the annual tribute that had been sent from Rome's Near Eastern province

Hill Top, Near Sawrey – Potter's former home, now owned by the National Trust and preserved as it was when she lived and wrote her stories there.

Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.

Near the end of the Daytona 500, he had a four-second lead when the final caution flag came out with a handful of laps to go.

Near the end of his term, his efforts to set up a summit meeting with the Soviets collapsed because of the U-2 incident when an American spy plane was shot down over Russia and its pilot captured.

Given Poseidon's connection with horses as well as the sea, and the landlocked situation of the likely Indo-European homeland, Nobuo Komita has proposed that Poseidon was originally an aristocratic Indo-European horse-god who was then assimilated to Near Eastern aquatic deities when the basis of the Greek livelihood shifted from the land to the sea, or a god of fresh waters who was assigned a secondary role as god of the sea, where he overwhelmed the original Aegean sea deities such as Proteus and Nereus.

* The Hellenistic period ( 323 – 146 BC ) is when Greek culture and power expanded into the Near and Middle East.

Harris said of him :" At a time when European archaeologists were preoccupied with regional sites and sequences, it was he who had the vision, the knowledge and the skill to construct the first prehistory of the whole continent ( 1925 ) and the first ordered and comprehensive account of the ancient Near East ( 1928 ).

One Minute Silence came together in the early 1990s when Irish vocalist Brian Barry got together with guitarist Chris Ignatiou under the name " Near Death Experience ".

Near the conclusion of the American Civil War, when Louisiana became part of the Department of Mississippi, St. Joseph served as the chief route across the Mississippi River.

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

Capitol Records released a recording that had begun as an experiment in Paul's garage, entitled " Lover ( When You're Near Me )", which featured Paul playing eight different parts on electric guitar, some of them recorded at half-speed, hence " double-fast " when played back at normal speed for the master.

Near King's Norton Junction there is a disused stop lock, which used to prevent the canal taking water from the Worcester and Birmingham Canal when they were separately owned, but is now left permanently open.

Near the end of the war, when the Stars and Stripes were again raised at Fort Sumter in South Carolina, Beecher was the main speaker.

Near the end of Claudius the God, Graves introduces another concept: when a formerly free nation has lived under a dictatorship for too long, it is incapable of returning to free rule.

Intermittent esotropias, again as the name implies, are not always present: They may be visible when looking at close objects but not when looking at distant ones ( Near Esotropia ) or, rarely, when looking at distant objects but not at close ones ( Distance Esotropia ).

Near sunrise and sunset, when θ

Near the parallel, North Korea also opened the city of Kaesong for exports until 2010, when South Korea imposed economic sanctions after the sinking of a South Korean warship.

Near the end when Picard is about to be brought back to his crew, he defiantly declares, once again, " There are four lights !".

Near the end of Wang Mang's Xin Dynasty ( AD 9 – AD 23 ), Lü Zhi's body was desecrated by Chimei rebels when they raided Gaozu's tomb.