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.

* Van de Mieroop, Marc: A History of the Ancient Near East, 2nd ed., Oxford 2007.

In February 2007, Ptolemaic Productions acquired the rights to The Singularity is Near, The Age of Spiritual Machines and Fantastic Voyage including the rights to Kurzweil's life and ideas for the film Transcendent Man.

Having turned out to be more common than previously believed, it is downlisted from Vulnerable to Near Threatened in the 2007 IUCN Red List.

Astronomers have been conducting surveys to locate the NEOs, many ( as of early 2007 ) funded by NASA's Near Earth Object ( NEO ) program office as part of their Spaceguard program.

As it is rarer than previously believed, its conservation status was reassessed from Least Concern to Near Threatened in the 2007 IUCN Red List.

Gravity's Rainbow is a song by the British band Klaxons, from the album Myths of the Near Future ( 2007 ).

* 2007 Bill Medley, Damn Near Righteous

* Jacob L. Dahl, The Ruling Family of Ur III Umma: A Prosopographical Analysis of an Elite Family in Southern Iraq 4000 Years ago, Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten / Netherlands Institute for the Near East ( NINO ), 2007, ISBN 90-6258-319-9

Near noon on September 9, 2007, Tropical Storm Gabrielle made landfall at this exact point with winds of.

However, data now suggest that silky shark numbers are declining around the world, which prompted the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) to reassess its conservation status from Least Concern to Near Threatened in 2007.

Several novels have been written about the Roswell incident, including Whitley Strieber's Majestic ( 1989 ), Kevin D. Randle's Operation Roswell ( 2004 ), and Sonny Whitelaw's Stargate SG-1: Roswell ( 2007 ), The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex and Gotcha Gas: Debacle Near Roswell ( 2011 ), an historical parody by Banak and Weimer.

* Christopher Lillington-Martin, " Archaeological and Ancient Literary Evidence for a Battle near Dara Gap, Turkey, AD 530: Topography, Texts & Trenches ", British Archaeological Reports ( BAR ) – S1717, 2007 The Late Roman Army in the Near East from Diocletian to the Arab Conquest Proceedings of a colloquium held at Potenza, Acerenza and Matera, Italy ( May 2005 ) edited by Ariel S. Lewin and Pietrina Pellegrini with the aid of Zbigniew T. Fiema and Sylvain Janniard.

Near the beginning of the 2007 – 08 season, in an October 8 win against the Edmonton Oilers, Lidström registered two assists, passing Peter Forsberg as the second-highest scoring Swedish-born NHL player of all-time.

In November 2007, Mehdi Khalaji, a fellow at a think-tank called Washington Institute for Near East Policy ( WINEP ), filed a $ 2 million libel and defamation lawsuit against Derakhshan, over one of his blog posts < ref >

Estimates suggest that increased protection has since enabled a recovery in their numbers and the status of the species was changed from Vulnerable to Near Threatened in the 2007 IUCN Red List.

* Death Note ( 2006 – 2007, Near )

Vice President Cheney cited Ajami again in an October 21, 2007 speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, stating, " We have no illusions about the road ahead.

A multi-option poll by Near East Consulting ( NEC ) in November 2007 found the bi-national state to be less popular than either " two states for two people " or " a Palestinian state on all historic Palestine ".

Near the end of 2007, Yen added a new martial arts system to his arsenal.

In 2007, " Not Over Yet " was reworked by the Klaxons and renamed " It's Not Over Yet ", for their album Myths of the Near Future.

Near The Palace of Auburn Hills, 50, 600 vehicles used the roadway on average in 2007.

Near the end of July 2007 in Amsterdam, he helped Dutch police in the arrest of two British criminals.

In 2007 fifteen percent of sales were to the Americas, mainly North and Central America, one percent of sales to Oceania, and the remainder of sales were about equally divided between Africa, and the Near and Far East.

Near the end of the 2007 season, Reiser was named the general manager for all five of Roush Fenway Racing's Nextel / Sprint Cup teams.