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.

The most recent study on the ante-Aesopic fables or the fables in ancient Near Eastern languages by Akimoto discovers the rich fable traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia ; for example, the Ninurta-uballitsu Assyrian fable collection which is the oldest known fable collection with the compiler's autograph and the completion date 883 BCE, the Hurrian-Hittite bilingual fable collections are embedded in a long myth and the storyteller tells after each fable his / her own moral.

In the ancient Near East, each city had a local patron deity, such as Shamash at Larsa or Sin at Ur.

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

* The Seder ha-Mishmarah, used by some Jews of Near and Middle Eastern origin, in which each weekly Torah portion is studied together with sections from Neviim and Ketuvim and the Mishnah so that all these works are read in full in the course of the year: this too has been published in book form under the title Ḥoq le-Ya ' akob.

Near the San Gabriel Mountains and within driving distance of the Pacific Ocean, Pomona College takes advantage of its location to host an annual " Ski-Beach Day " each spring.

Near the top of the column, on each of the three sides, is the engraved image of the face of each crew member set into a stylized triangle.

Near the end of each episode, there was usually a sketch of some sort, followed by each of the guests doing a brief monologue on a particular topic that was discussed earlier in the episode.

The men would walk down from the hill on their way to work each day at the factories east of Tipperary Hill that lined Geddes, Fayette, Marcellus and Oswego streets on the city's Near Westside.

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 some Near and Middle Eastern Jewish traditions, the whole of Ketuvim ( as well as the rest of the Tanakh and the Mishnah ) is read each year on a weekly rota, usually on Shabbat afternoons.

Near the mailboxes or some other location accessible by outsiders, there may be a buzzer ( equivalent to a doorbell ) for each individual unit.

Near the beginning of each episode of The New Yankee Workshop, Abram recites a standard monologue about safety.

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 Black Temple there are two houses near a sacred oak tree where the local deity once appeared as a winged creature, scaring the local people ( the valley is divided into a number of areas, each under the influence of a particular local deity predating the arrival of Buddhism — see Bön religion ).

" Near the beginning of each MXC episode, he is seen addressing the contestants as a group, asking whether some broad assertion relating to one of the topics in the episode is true.

Near each of these directions, three of the city's main stadiums are nearby at their turning points.

The operating company had four shareholders, each with an interest of 23. 75 %: the Royal Dutch / Shell Group, the Anglo-Persian Company ( which would eventually become the British Petroleum Company, or BP ), Compagnie Française des Pétroles ( whose convoluted lineage would make it a predecessor of today ’ s TotalFina-Elf ) and the Near East Development Company ( whose likewise convoluted lineage would make it a subsidiary of today ’ s ExxonMobil ).

Near each end of the boom Château-Renault had moored two of his largest men-of-war: the Bourbon, and the Esperance.

In the 2nd Millennium BCE Near East, there was a tradition of reciprocally using such addresses between powers as a way of diplomatically recognizing each other as an equal.

Near the end of 2005, GamePro had changed this format to have one review for any next-gen game that was developed and then released on more than one system platforms, describing any differences that one system platform may have over another with that particular game, and giving scores for each system platorm's versions of the game separately.

He then served as an office director in both the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs and in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs for a year each.

Near Defiance, Ohio, two scouting parties met each other, and the U. S. scouting party was captured.