Near the Danish straits the salinity is close to that of the Kattegat, but still not fully oceanic, because the saltiest water that passes the straits is still already mixed with considerable amounts of outflow water.

The Gerads and the Bari Sultans built impressive palaces, castles and fortresses and had close relations with many different empires in the Near East.

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous-Shoemaker ( NEAR Shoemaker ), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene M. Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year.

Near the end of its mission, the Phoenix Lander detected more thin clouds close to the north pole of Mars.

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

Near the film's close, Alfie decides to change his non-committal ways and settle down, albeit with the rich Ruby.

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

Near the place of the Swedish town Nyen, close to the Neva river's estuary at the Gulf of Finland, the new Russian capital Saint Petersburg was founded in 1703.

Near the end of the century he sold the island to the Knights Templar, who then sold it to Guy de Lusignan, but kept a large feudal estate at Kolossi, close to Limassol, to themselves.

Professor Amélie Kuhrt, head of Ancient Near Eastern History at University College, London, in one of the standard reference works of the discipline, notes that " Many scholars feel sympathetic to the critique of weaknesses in the existing chronological framework [...], but most archaeologists and ancient historians are not at present convinced that the radical redatings proposed stand up to close examination.

Near the poles, they are close to being logarithmic spirals ( on a stereographic projection they are exactly, see below ), so they wind round each pole an infinite number of times but reach the pole in a finite distance.

In 2008, the IUCN classified Asian golden cats as Near Threatened, stating that the species comes close to qualifying as Vulnerable due to hunting pressure and habitat loss, since Southeast Asian forests are undergoing the world's fastest regional deforestation rates.

This causes the species to be put on the Near Threatened list, meaning it is close to being a threatened species.

Near the close of his embassy, Rochford was an eyewitness to the Madrid Riots of 1766.

Near field communication ( NFC ) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into close proximity, usually no more than a few centimetres.

Near the interchange with Interstate 280, SR 85 runs close to the headquarters of Apple Computer and next to De Anza College as well as the titled West Valley College, both community colleges in the area.

Broadly, the Near Umbra ( the Umbra relatively close to Earth ) can be divided into four subtypes, along lines roughly defined by the four videres:

Non-observational work focuses on computations of close approaches of asteroids with the Earth ( linked at Near Earth Object Program at Jet Propulsion Laboratory ) and orbit identifications of asteroids and comets.

* Near the junction of Fenham Carr Lane and Wyresdale Road one mile south east of the City of Lancaster and close to the Ashton Memorial.

The First Amendment and various court decisions ( e. g. Near v. Minnesota ) give very broad rights to anyone to publish a newspaper or other publication, and severely restrict the government in any effort to close down or censor a private publication.

Near the close of the 19th century, a medical doctor by the name of Gustav Zander developed a complete set of machines similar to Nautilus and also a workout method remarkably close to that promoted by Arthur Jones in the early 1970s.

Near the end of the 17th century, John Phillips, a nephew of poet John Milton, published what is considered by Putnam the worst English translated version.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek – Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.

* July 20 – American Civil War – Battle of Peachtree Creek: Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.

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 ).

In 1980 he played the Funny Uncle in a dramatisation of the John Betjeman poem " Indoor Games Near Newbury ", part of an ITV special titled Betjeman's Britain that also starred Peter Cook and Susannah York.

Near Osawatomie are historic sites of John Brown, such as his famouns Civil War lookout.

Near the end, in a desperate attempt to raise the funds his company needed to survive, John DeLorean was filmed appearing to accept money to take part in drug trafficking, but was subsequently acquitted of charges brought against him on the basis of entrapment.

Earle is also the subject of two biographies, Steve Earle: Fearless Heart, Outlaw Poet, by David McGee and Hardcore Troubadour: The Life and Near Death of Steve Earle by Lauren St. John.

Near neighbours from 1815 to 1817 at Little Boston House was US Envoy and future US President John Quincy Adams, and his English wife Louisa.

Near the entrance to the church, three stones mark the supposed ashes of Anne Tree, Thomas Dunngate and John Forman who were burned as martyrs on 18 July 1556 because they would not renounce the Protestant faith.

However, according to St John Simpson of the Near Eastern department of the British Museum, their original excavation and context were not well-recorded ( see stratigraphy ), so evidence for this date range is very weak.

Accompanied by Mithradates ( now called John ), he traveled across several countries of the Near East and finally settled in Majuma near Gaza.

Near the John Ross bridge, 8 km from the mouth, is the site of the historic Zulu village Ndondakusuka.

Jean Chardin ( 16 November 1643 – 5 January 1713 ), born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East.

John Basil Hennessy AO ( born 10 February 1925 ), is an Australian archaeologist of the Ancient Near East and Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney.

* Near Jerusalem at Yad Kennedy, Israel's memorial to U. S. President John F. Kennedy

Portrait of Jack ( John ) Taylor, pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, National League, warming up with other players at home plate at West Side Grounds located between West Polk Street, South Wolcott Avenue ( formerly Lincoln Street ), West Taylor Street, and South Wood Street, in the Near West Side community area of Chicago, Illinois.

Near life-size ( 94 "* 58 ") portrait of Lady Anne de la Pole ( 1758-1832 ) ( née Templer ), wife of Sir John de la Pole, 6th Baronet, painted in 1786 by George Romney.

Near Corra Linn is the Pavilion, built by Sir John Carmichael of Bonnington, probably in 1708.

Near John Bryan State Park, the North Country Trail and Buckeye Trail enter from Dayton to the west.

Near the end of EGMs original run, Quartermann had been penned by former editorial director John Davison and executive editor Shane Bettenhausen.