Near the end of the Hippodrome I came upon the Built Column, a truncated obelisk of blocks, all that remains of a monument that once rivalled the Colossus of Rhodes.

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 ''.

Near the end of Alexander's life, Alexander began to suspect plots against himself, and threatened Aristotle in letters.

" Near the end of his life, he fictionalized this experience in his book New Connecticut, originally circulated only among friends before its publication in 1881.

Near the west end of the lake it receives its first important tributary, the Lütschine.

Near the west end of Lake Thun, the river receives the waters of the Kander, which has just been joined by the Simme.

It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.

Near the end of the days of the vow, Paul was recognized outside Herod's Temple and was nearly beaten to death by a mob, " shouting, ' Men of Israel, help us!

Near the end, I could hardly breathe.

Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.

Near the end of the first decade of the double-Bills ' guidance, the Cubs won the NL pennant in 1929 and then achieved the unusual feat of winning a pennant every three years, following up the 1929 flag with league titles in 1932, 1935, and 1938.

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.

Near the end, Don Quixote reluctantly sways towards sanity: an inn is just an inn, not a castle.

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.

Near the end of his life, he became reclusive and produced frightening and obscure paintings of insanity, madness, and fantasy, while the style of the Black Paintings prefigures the expressionist movement.

Near the end of his 1796 paper on living and fossil elephants he said:

Near the end of this period his friend Basil died.

Near the end of the Second World War, Allied forces discovered that the SS had compiled lists of people slated for immediate arrest during the invasion of Britain in the abandoned Operation Sea Lion, and Wells was included in the alphabetical list on the same page of " The Black Book " as Rebecca West.

Near the end of 1840 he once again decided to sign ship's articles.

Near the end of his apprenticeship, Grien oversaw the production of stained glass, woodcuts and engravings, and therefore developed an affinity for them.

Near the end of his life, Caesar began to prepare for a war against the Parthian Empire.

Near the end of the book, Calvin describes and defends the doctrine of predestination, a doctrine advanced by Augustine in opposition to the teachings of Pelagius.

Near the end of his life, Justinian became ever more inclined towards the Monophysite doctrine, especially in the form of Aphthartodocetism, but he died before being able to issue any legislation which would have elevated its teachings to the status of dogma.

In 1984, Khalilzad accepted a one-year Council on Foreign Relations fellowship to join the State Department, where he was an advisor to the Near East and South Asia Bureau headed by Richard Murphy.

** Near Death Experience ( punk band )-a band from Lawrence, Kansas formed in 1984

* Our Lives and Our Children: Photographs Taken Near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, Aperture, Millerton, NY ( 1984 ).

She also served as Director of Political Military Affairs and then as Director of Near East and South Asian Affairs from 1984 to 1989 with the National Security Council staff.

Near the town square, it swapped sides with SR 5, continuing north on Church Street ( before it became one-way southbound in 1984 ) and then northwest on Kennesaw Avenue to become Main Street in downtown Kennesaw and Acworth, before crossing the Cobb / Bartow county line.

The discovery hastened the negotiations over the composition of TPC, and on 31 July 1928 the shareholders signed a formal partnership agreement to include the Near East Development Corporation ( NEDC ), an American consortium of five large US oil companies that included Standard Oil of New Jersey ( later Exxon, eventually ExxonMobil in 1999 ), Standard Oil Company of New York ( Socony ) ( later Mobil, which eventually amalgamated to ExxonMobil ), Gulf Oil ( which later merged with Chevron in 1984 ), the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company, and Atlantic Richfield Co. ( later ARCO ; eventually acquired by BP in 1999 ).

An example from his 1984 collection The Near World is " The Man on My Porch Makes Me an Offer ," which begins:

He joined the faculty of Cornell University in 1984 through 1996 as a Professor of Near Eastern Studies ( Judaica ); during the years 1985 – 1989 he served as Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and Director of the Jewish Studies Program.

* Small Hits and Near Misses ( featuring the demo version of " Freedom Fighters " made on Inevitable Records ) ( Inevitable / RCA 1984 )

Leo Geter is an American character actor who has appeared in many films, including the 1984 hit Footloose, as well as Near Dark, The Stand, and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, and Silent Night, Deadly Night.

Near the end of his life, Carl Foreman returned to the United States where he died of a brain tumor in 1984 in Beverly Hills, California.

Yet, as Lemke and O ’ Connor point out, The Book of Lamentations, while adapting several traditional literary, historical, and cultural Near Eastern elements, is a unique literary composition, scripted to a specific historical situation, in response to an historical catastrophe, addressing the survivors of this catastrophe in a distinctive religious context.

Visiting Hill Top every chance she got, Potter ’ s books written during this period ( such as The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, about the local shop in Near Sawrey and The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, a wood mouse ) reflect her increasing participation in village life and her delight in country living.

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 Golgi ’ s tomb, apart from his wife, two other important Italian medical scientists are buried: Bartolomeo Panizza and Adelchi Negri.

Near the end of the War of Wrath that pitted Morgoth ’ s hosts against the Host of the Valar, Morgoth sent Ancalagon leading a fleet of winged dragons from the fortress of Angband to destroy the Dark Lord ’ s enemies.

Paul K. Davis writes that " Pydna marked the final destruction of Alexander ’ s empire and introduced Roman authority over the Near East.

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.

Near 3 pm the French reserves, formed by Canrobert ’ s 3rd Corps and the Imperial Guard under Regnaud, attacked Cavriana, which was defended by the Austrian I Corps under Clam-Gallas, finally occupying it at 6 pm and thereby breaking through the Austrian center.

“ The Byzantine Period: An Empire ’ s New Holy Land .” Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol.

“ Petrie ’ s Head: Eugenics and Near Eastern Archaeology ”, in Alice B. Kehoe and Mary Beth Emmerichs, Assembling the Past ( Albuquerque, NM, 1999 ).

In Chicago, the Sisters opened Columbus Extension Hospital ( later renamed Saint Cabrini Hospital ) in the heart of the city ’ s Italian neighborhood on the Near West Side.

The Sanskrit word for worship is “ Upaasana ” – ‘ Upa ’ ( Near ) ‘ Aasana ’ ( Sitting )-Upaasana means sitting near the Lord.

Near Times Square Joel Renaldo presided over " Joel ’ s Bohemian Refreshery " where the Bohemian crowd gathered from before the turn of the twentieth century until Prohibition began to bite.

Near Bradford Abbas it crossed over the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth line of the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) on a bridge, then ran alongside it and the Yeovil Branch Line of the Bristol and Exeter Railway ( B & ER ) to reach that company ’ s terminus at, on the west side of Yeovil.

Antipater ’ s legacy of shrewdness stems from his craftiness with Hyrcanus and his foresight over the Near East ’ s growing subordination to Rome.

Near today ’ s Miltenberg, the Limes came up against the Main, which from here northwards formed the Roman Empire ’ s natural border with Germania.

Near Nero Lake is located the town of Rostov ( on the western shore of the lake ) and a few villages ( on perimeter ): Porech ’ e-Rybnoe (), Ugodichi (), Vorzha (), L ’ vy () etc.

Artists appearing in the first five years included most of the stars of the burgeoning women ’ s music movement, such as Holly Near, Margie Adam, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Linda Tillery, The Dance Brigade, Mary Watkins, Alive !, Edwina Lee Tyler, Teresa Trull, Alix Dobkin, Maxine Feldman, Cris Williamson, Meg Christian, Ferron, and Casselberry & Dupree.

" A study released in 2006 by the Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada found that the National Post was 83. 3 times more likely to report an Israeli child ’ s death than a Palestinian child ’ s death in its news articles ’ headlines or first paragraphs.