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.

Near the close of his discourse John Chrysostom refers to the erection of the church dedicated to Babylas, and to the zeal of the Bishop Meletius in promoting it, who actually took part in the work with his own hands.

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 end of the 19th century, it was typical for the bride-to-be to receive a sewing thimble rather than an engagement ring.

Near the burial mound are two large water towers, built in the 19th century, which Norwood uses to store water and regulate water pressure throughout its City.

Near Windsor, atop an Indian mound, is a cemetery where members of the family have been buried since the early 19th century.

Near the end of the 19th century, hunting on their migration routes took a heavy toll on this bird's numbers ; the population has since recovered.

Near the end of the 19th century, modern conservatories opened in many cities, and New York became the home of the Metropolitan Opera House in 1882 and Carnegie Hall in 1891, the latter's opening being marked by an appearance by the famed Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Near the end of the 19th century, several scientists existed whose work was also very influential.

Near the end of the 19th century, these groups would in turn be absorbed into the wider socialist political parties and trade unions which placed strong emphasis on unity and cohesion for the purpose of breaking through the electoral monopoly held by liberal and conservative parties.

Mark Cohen, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, in his Under Crescent and Cross, calls the idealized interfaith utopia a " myth " that was first promulgated by Jewish historians such as Heinrich Graetz in the 19th century as a rebuke to Christian countries for their treatment of Jews.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European museums regularly sponsored such excavations throughout the Mediterranean and Near East, sharing the ownership of their discoveries with the host country.

Near the end of the 19th century, the hokku was completely separated from the context of haikai no renga by Masaoka Shiki and revised and written as an independent verse form which he named " haiku ", though retaining the kigo.

Near the center of town, various land claims were platted in the 19th century with differently oriented grids, which have survived until today.

Near the end of the 19th century, logging became the primary activity in the area.

Near the East Alligator River crossing, a figure was painted of a man carrying a gun and wearing his hair in long pigtails down his back ; the latter identified him historically as a Chinese labourer brought to Darwin in the late 19th century.

Near the end of the 19th century, the town focused on the production of coffee, which greatly boosted the local economy.

Near the end of the 19th century, the Lingnan or Cantonese school of " Clip and Grow " styling was developed at a monastery in southeast China.

However, Bernal emphasizes African elements in Ancient Near Eastern culture and denounces the alleged Eurocentrism of 19th and 20th century research, including the very slogan " Ex Oriente Lux " of Orientalists which, according to Bernal, betrays " the Western appropriation of ancient Near Eastern culture for the sake of its own development " ( p. 423 ).

Near Limoges is the Larosse Forest, a man-made forest planted between 1928 and 1980 over the Bourget Desert, itself created as the result of clear cutting in the 19th century.

Near McClintocksville and Oil City, in western Pennsylvania, there is a Pennsylvania State Park and many heritage sites to tell the story and memorialize the people of the oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Near McClintocksville and Oil City, in western Pennsylvania, there is a Pennsylvania State Park and many heritage sites to tell the story and memorialize the people of the oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Near the end of the 19th century the capability of making interchangeable parts from metal was in widespread use.

Near the end of the 19th century, a lumber town called Muskoka Mills was located at the mouth of the river.

) Carr, Tagore and Company ( even earlier, Rustomjee Cowasjee, a Parsi in Calcutta, had formed an inter-racial firm but in the early 19th century, Parsis were classified as a Near Eastern community as opposed to South Asian ).

Near the end of the 19th century, a Prussian officer, Major Fedor Maria von Donat ( 1847 – 1919 ), had an idea ; he would build a channel that followed the base of the mountains, cutting through a sand dune at Terracina.